Sara Ann

“It’s interesting-most people think about therapy as something that involves going in and undoing what’s happened. But whatever your past experiences created in your brain, the associations exist and you can’t just delete them. You can’t get rid of the past.
Therapy is more about building new associations, making new, healthier default pathways. It is almost as if therapy is taking your two-lane dirt road and building a four-lane freeway alongside it. The old road stays, but you don’t use it much anymore. Therapy is building a better alternative, a new default. And that takes repetition, and time, honestly, it works best if someone understands how the brain changes. This is why understanding how trauma impacts our health is essential for everyone.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“A mess in every way. Someone must have made her see herself that way, and whoever it is, I hate them,”
― Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Last Call at the Local

“Mastering yourself is the work of a lifetime [...] You re not broken. We are all imperfect beings, striving for enlightenment. You just have to strive a little more than most.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance