Emotional Awareness Quotes

“I have a question for you Water. What happens to the water in my body if I get angry at someone or if someone gets angry with me?”

“A very good question,” said Water. “In either case, the water in your body gets upset and causes you to not feel very well. You feel sad, or maybe you will cry. Crying is good because it puts good endorphins into your body, and you will start to feel better. They help the water in your body to recover.”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

“Mycelium?” Joey asked. “What is that?”
 
Water explained, “It is a huge organism made up of very, very small fibres or filaments of fungus. The fungus grows underground, and it connects all the roots of the trees together. Its flower is a mushroom. Do you like to eat mushrooms?”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

“Since Alice spoke about energy, I think that is the next thing we must talk about. As she said, everything is energy. Not the type of energy that makes you get up in the morning, but what you and everything around you is made of. You look solid but you’re really made up of very tiny particles that are always vibrating. Even what you call air is made up of those same particles!”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

“...accept what you've already learned: that your disability will come and go and you'll never control it completely. Educate yourself about it, become an expert manager, and use treatment whenever you think it's necessary and without regard to your yearnings to be normal. Fight the shame that comes with being ill by sharing as much with others as you think is appropriate according to your own standards of privacy, not the culture's stigma.”
― Sarah Bennett, F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems

“The brainwaves we send out are the only ones others will surf back to our shores.‬”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“It is so easy to forget the importance of emotional self-care. Especially when we have obvious symptoms of mental and physical illness. Emotions seem irrelevant, unrelated, invisible. But when we look at a giant oak tree, the seed that bore it is invisible too.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“To repress a feeling is to give it unlimited power.”
― Myron Doc Downing, PhD

“Recognize that love in that instance is conditional. If your love depends upon that person meeting your expectation, then it is not true love.”
― Calvin Niles

“Screens offer escape — but they also rob us of the very discomfort that builds strength.”
― P. Pra. Sandhyaya, Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience

“Worry is not a weakness to overcome, but a message to understand.”
― Ram Mohan Nair, The Courage To Worry: Listen to Your Worries, Conquer Your Challenges, Transform Your Life

“Sometimes the lesson isn’t about why you chose the wrong person. It’s about why you stayed.”
― Louise Fields, Stop Dating the Wrong Letters: A Playful-but-True Guide to Finding Love That Fits (Alphabetically Speaking)

“You are not here to hold everything together.
You are here to recognise what is yours to carry.”
― Anni Mitchell