Arminta Dellwo

“In Japanese tradition, there is an art form called kintsugi where cracks in a broken bowl are filled with gold. Instead of hiding its history, the broken piece is repaired, and the cracks are made beautiful. The message in this art form is that there is beauty in breaking, healing, and transforming.”
― Leah Guzman ATR BC, Essential Art Therapy Exercises: Effective Techniques to Manage Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD

“Love is not something to be found it is something to be built brick by careful brick and the more carefully it is built the stronger it will be for when life’s winds blow and storms shake the walls.”
― Atticus Poetry, LVOE.: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms

“My critic, like my parents, always found something flawed in me to contradict the feedback that I was getting. Ninety-nine percent on a test was never a cause for pride. Rather, it was the impetus for a great deal of self-criticism about the missing one percent. Like many other survivors that I have worked with, I developed the imposter’s syndrome. This syndrome contradicted the outside positive feedback that I was receiving. It insisted that if people really knew me, they would see what a loser I was. Eventually, however, I became confident in my intelligence even though my self-esteem was still abysmal.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“for these days, the world is ruled by arrogant narcissists who have exchanged their souls for the promise of power, and in spite of all their talk about justice and the betterment of “the people,” they care naught for any but themselves. In their high hubris, they are masters of destruction and press their many kinds of ruination into every crack and crevice, so that even the most remote sanctuary will in time receive the consequences of their insanity.”
― Dean Koontz, The House at the End of the World