Emily

“The truth is, today's polarizing platforms, and the information we consume on them, erode many of the values we hold dear. Rapid-fired consumption makes it difficult to pause to ask ourselves whether what we're seeing aligns with what we believe. And before we know it, the lines between truth and the internet become blurred.”
― Erin Loechner, The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't

“There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

“What is anxiety if not fear that you cannot handle this world?" I tell him how much I want our kids to trust our very real and alive world, but mostly I want our kids to trust their very real and alive selves.”
― Erin Loechner, The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't

“As I often tell my students, the two most important phrases in therapy, as in yoga, are “Notice that” and “What happens next?” Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma