Rainbow Unicorn

“We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“But when I made a mistake, the dread crept into my field of vision and I couldn’t see anything except my mistake for an hour, maybe even a day.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“When something tragic happens, you should be there with that pain, feeling that sadness. When something unjust happens, you should feel how aggravating it is. And then, after you’ve sat with those feelings for the appropriate amount of time—and it could be an hour, or a day, or months, depending on the severity of what happened—then, you can go back to a state of rest. Or joy. Or whatever. Being healed isn’t about feeling nothing. Being healed is about feeling the appropriate emotions at the appropriate times and still being able to come back to yourself.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“When we say someone is resilient, we mean that they adapt well to conditions of adversity—they are strong, in possession of “emotional toughness.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma