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“Sitting at The Well allows us to move into our logical, emotionally regulating brain, and to receive His love, letting it wash over us, allowing us to feel calmer. The calmer we feel, the more we can focus on who He really is. The more we focus on who He really is, reminding ourselves of His truths, the calmer we are. The more we sit with Him, breathing in all of who He was and is, the less fear and shame we feel. We are free to focus on the truth that there is no guilt or shame that is bigger than the cross. His death covered all that has happened”
― Jeanne Brooks, Crisis Intervention: The Neurobiology of Crisis

“Love is the antidote to fear. Fear causes you to shrink and withhold; love opens you up.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

“The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know
how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.”
—Cicely Tyson”
― Andrea Thompson, G.I.T.U.P. The Audacity of Overcoming

“She’d survived because the fire inside of her burned brighter than the fire(s) around her.”
― Andrea Thompson, G.I.T.U.P. The Audacity of Overcoming