Mauricio Jasso

“I often wonder how many others are sitting near me, stuck in their own quiet battles with physical or mental or spiritual health, afraid or unwilling or even unable to discuss them, silently pleading for someone to extend any added amount of grace.”
― Carlee J Hansen, How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.

“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“I’m more than my anxiety,
more than my depression,
more than the things that cause my aggression.

I’m more than my guilt,
more than my desperation,
more than the things that provide me frustration.

I’m more than my resentment,
more than the emotions I try to hide,
more than the things that eat me up inside.

I’m more than my indecision,
more than my doubt,
more than the things that make me want out.

I’m more than my setbacks,
more than my fatigue,
more than the things that harm my physique.

I’m more than my loneliness,
more than my annoyance,
more than the things that cause my avoidance.

I’m more than my failures,
more than my profanity,
more than the things that cause my insanity.

I’m more than my sadness,
more than my irritability,
more than the things that cause my fragility.

I’m more than my sweaty palms,
more than my shortness of breath,
more than the things that drive me to death.

I’m more than my pain,
more than my blues,
more than the alcohol I abuse.

I’m more than my trembling,
more than my shaky voice,
more than the things that provide me such noise.

I’m more than my restlessness,
more than my tears,
more than the insecurities that have plagued me for years.

I’m more than the ear can hear,
more than the heart can feel,
more than the eye can see,
I’m beautifully me.”
― K.J. Redelinghuys, Unfiltered: Grappling with Mental Illness

“Emotion is inseparable from the body in which it is felt, and emotion is also the basis for our engagement with the world.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World