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You have to be in a certain mindset to want to read Wuthering Heights. For me, that mindset was relentless wind and rain for weeks during a period of social isolation. Wuthering Heights explores the peaks of human emotion better than any other bo
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Book cover for Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
By naturalizing the idea that girls and women aren’t angry but are sad, by insisting that they keep their anger to themselves, we render women’s feelings and demands mute and with little social value. When we call our anger sadness instead ...more
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Edith Eger
“Anything we practice, we become better at. If we practice anger, we'll have more anger. If we practice fear, we'll have more fear. In many cases, we actually work very hard to ensure that we go nowhere. Change is about noticing what's no longer working and stepping out of the familiar, imprisoning patterns.”
Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

Edith Eger
“Underlying our least effective and most harmful behavior is a philosophical or idealogical core that is irrational but is so central to our views of ourself and the world that often we aren't aware that it is only a belief, nor are we aware of how persistently we repeat this belief to ourselves in our daily lives.”
Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

Shawna Yang Ryan
“I want to believe that my parents found a way to bypass time that night, to compress and expand their lives together, to live out their whole lives again in their goodbye.”
Shawna Yang Ryan, Green Island

Galit Atlas
“In ways that often feel mysterious, emotional material left unprocessed tends to appear and reappear in our lives. The unexamined life repeats itself and reverberates through the generations. The untold stories clamor for reenactment - they insist on being told. That which cannot be consciously identified forces itself into our reality and repeats itself.”
Galit Atlas, Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

Amanda Gorman
“Goodbye, by which we say to another— Thanks for offering your life into mine. By Goodbye, we truly mean: Let us be able to say hello again.”
Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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