Jasmina

“Bibliotherapy is a term that describes the very real process of being positively and therapeutically influenced by what you read. As stated earlier, when it is at its most powerful, bibliotherapy is also relationally healing. It can rescue you from the common Cptsd feeling of abject isolation and alienation.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Verbal ventilation is the key way that people make friends. It parallels the way tender touch, soothing voice, and welcoming facial expressions helps infants and toddlers establish bonding and attachment. When we practice the emotionally based communication of verbal ventilation in a safe environment, we repair the damage of not having had this need met in childhood. This in turn opens up the possibility of finally attaining the verbal-emotional intimacy that is an essential lifelong need for all human beings.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“The only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid unavoidable pain.”
― Pete Walker, The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame

“it’s difficult to be curious and unhappy at the same time. Re-igniting”
― Mark Williams, Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world