Trey Rose

“Throughout life all of us have received deep emotional and spiritual wounds, often from the people we trust the most. Because of our love and need for these caregivers, we become capable (for survival’s sake) of rejecting our hearts and denying our wounds. We quit drinking deeply from the waters of emotional and spiritual life. We quit trusting the heart’s thirst to be known, seen, fed, and expanded. Instead of remaining vulnerable to growth, we resign our hearts to blocking all intrusions of relationship (and, ultimately, love) because of the fear that: (1) relationship is not real, and (2) relationship is real, but it will not last.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living