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“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

“How many of us have walked through fires again and again, and yet we’ve never taken time to pause and celebrate the resilience developed from it?”
― Me Ra Koh, 4 Minutes to Hear God's Voice

“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

“To be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter another’s world without prejudice. In some sense it means that you lay aside yourself and this can only be done by a person who is secure enough in himself that he knows he will not get lost in what may turn out to be the strange or bizarre world of the other, and can comfortably return to his own world when he wishes. Perhaps this description makes clear that being empathic is a complex demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being. (Rogers,”
― Karen R Kleiman, The Art of Holding in Therapy: An Essential Intervention for Postpartum Depression and Anxiety