Morgan

“Society values a stiff upper lip and glorifies the macho ideals of playing down feelings, going it alone, and being in control. Sadly, this only exacerbates emotional pain in the long run and prevents it from being healed.”
― Karen R. Koenig, The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health

“Name. Frame. Brave.” It’s a process of noticing thoughts and feelings, reflecting on them, and then translating that work into action.”
― PhD Cook, I Shouldn't Feel This Way: Name What’s Hard, Tame Your Guilt, and Transform Self-Sabotage into Brave Action

“When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief or bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares. 46”
― Strahan Coleman, Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God

“So often the spiritual blankness we feel when we think about God is due to our blankness in general because we spend so little time with ourselves apart from the noise of life.”
― Strahan Coleman, Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God