ANIMA

“There is often sadness hibernating beneath your angry words. The sadness won’t kill you. The anger actually might.”
― Mark Wolynn, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

“maybe life’s more about carving out happy chapters than finding a single happy ending.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“As women, we spend so much of our lives feeling obliged. Obliged to show up when we say we will, obliged to turn up with a smile, obliged to tell everyone, “I am fine.” But obligated is just another word for oppressed. The only person you are obligated to is yourself.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“But the sadness of a lost childhood feels like yearning, impossible desire. It feels like a hollow, insatiable hunger.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma