Sidney Alexander

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

“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

“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

“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