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“Ruptures should inform the shape of relationships going forward. we should relate differently based on what's happened, now that we've learned something about who the other actually is and who we are. if not, we risk falling into the same patterns that didn't work before.”
― Prentis Hemphill, What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

“We commit to our own healing in part because the realization of what we are dreaming of rests on it. It is our responsibility to one another to do our internal work, not so that we feel good alone but to stay an active part of the whole and to refuse to pass down to the next generation what pain we've accrued.”
― Prentis Hemphill, What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

“Designations of innocence and guilt too often get in the way of repair.”
― Prentis Hemphill, What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

“Boundaries require us to rework and restructure our relationships for the sake of connection, for deep mutuality.”
― Prentis Hemphill, What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World