Steph Anya

“People who cannot connect through work, friendships, or family usually find other ways of bonding, as through illnesses, lawsuits, or family feuds. Anything is preferable to that godforsaken sense of irrelevance and alienation.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“...this is a real lesson in life. Yes, we got stuck, but what’d we girls do? We made it fun, we laughed. That’s what sisters and girlfriends are all about. Sticking together even in the mud, ‘specially in mud.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“In men and women with congestive heart failure, the state of the patient’s marriage is as good a predictor of survival after four years as the severity of the symptoms and degree of impairment,”
― Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love