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The Names

by Florence Knapp

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Apr 13, 2026 10:20AM

Willa once shared her theory that finding a four-leaf clover was a symptom of luck, not a cause. “It just means you have the kind of life where there are growing things and you have time to look at them,” she said. I think she was actually ...more

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“His smile made me feel cozy,”
― Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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“When you agree to keep someone’s secret, you hold their shame.”
― Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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“need. Impulses to do anything to keep other people from feeling angry at me. I still need help overriding those impulses. I need help figuring out what two-syllable word best describes my feelings. Telling the truth of my desire, even when I’m ashamed of it. Tolerating other people’s intense feelings. Tolerating my own.”
― Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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“I can feel everything and survive. What I thought would kill me, didn’t. Every time I said to myself: I can’t take this anymore—I was wrong. The truth was that I could and did take it all—and I kept surviving. Surviving again and again made me less afraid of myself, of other people, of life. I learned that I’d never be free from pain but I could be free from the fear of pain, and that was enough.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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