top of page
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves ...”
Mary Oliver
"Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change how we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves."
​
Bessel van der Kolk
"Every life is a piece of art,
put together with all means
available."
​
Pierre Janet
"In the dark times, will there be singing?
Yes.
There will be singing about the dark times."
​
Bertold Brecht
"... a fish caught on a hook; his gyrations must look peculiar to other fish that don't understand the circumstances; but his splashes are not his affliction, they are his effort to get rid of his affliction and as every fisherman knows, these efforts may succeed."
​
Karl Menninger
“Every bad feeling is potential energy towards a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness.”
​
Eugene Gendlin
"For whatever we lose like a you and a me
it's always ourselves we find in the sea"
e.e. cummings
bottom of page