Personal Growth

  • Mental Health: The maintenance and care of one’s most precious asset, the mind. -source unknown

  • We all have 2 lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one. -Confucius

  • Suffering is caused by not accepting what is. -Tara Brach

  • You can never make enough people happy to make yourself happy. -proverb

  • Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And, that is why life is hard. -Jeremy Goldberg

  • If your kindness leaves you feeling resentful, you are not being kind, you are being a people-pleaser. -source unknown

  • Be grateful for triggers, they point to where you are not free. -Melanie Fiona

Boundaries

  • Just because you do it well doesn’t mean you have to do it. -source unknown

  • Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long. -Michael Gungor

  • Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously. -Prentis Hemphill

  • Instead of getting caught up in justifying your boundaries to others, use that mental energy to reaffirm why you set them in the first place. -Brené Brown

  • Walls keep everybody out. Boundaries teach people where the door is. -Mark Groves

  • You can mute people in real life too. It’s called boundaries. -Dr. Zelana

  • Your body exists for you. Not for other people’s viewing pleasure. Not for other people’s judgment. Not for other people’s convenience. It exists for you and it deserves your care. -source unknown

Relationships

  • Does my connection to you lead to a disconnection with myself? -Brené Brown

  • People who care about you are sorry when they have hurt you. -source unknown

  • Go where you are loved. Stay where it is consistent. -source unknown

  • Sometimes broken relationships cannot be mended. Because mending them would mean accepting less than you deserve, not having your needs met, or being inauthentic to get along. Forcing broken relationships can be a betrayal of self. -Nedra Tawwab

  • Safety is not the absence of threat. It is the presence of connection. -Gabor Maté

  • When we avoid difficult conversations, we trade short-term discomfort for long-term dysfunction. -Peter Bromberg

  • I deserve to filled in the same way I pour. -source unknown

  • You may feel drained by your relationships because you are performing instead of being your authentic self. -source unknown

  • Do it from love, not for love. -source unknown

Identity/Self-Image

  • There is no shame in admitting that we were previously speaking from a less informed place. -Kelly Hayes

  • Make peace with the fact that people hold different versions of you in their mind. Ultimately, who you know yourself to be is what matters the most. -source unknown

  • The best revenge is to have enough self-worth not to seek it. -source unknown

  • You are allowed to unlearn who you’ve been if it isn’t who you are anymore. -Lisa Olivera

  • You have never been in this exact moment before so there’s no need to pretend that you know exactly what to do. -source unknown

  • When I’m feeling frustrated by my old, unhealthy coping mechanisms, I try to remember to stop and thank them for keeping me safe when I didn’t have another way. -Hailey Page Magee

  • Everyone smiles in the same language. -George Carlin

Anxiety and Depression

  • Having depression and anxiety is so confusing, it’s like living with a voice in your head that convinces you that both no one and everyone cares at the same time. -source unknown

  • Depression is your avatar telling you it’s tired of being the character you are trying to play. -Jim Carrey

  • Anxiety says, “If I worry enough and take all the right actions, I can prevent bad things from happening.” Wisdom says, “Most of life is out of my hands. But there are some things I can do to create more inner safety.” -source unknown

Trauma

  • Children don’t get traumatized because they get hurt; they get traumatized because they’re alone with the hurt. -Gabor Maté

  • People raised on love see things differently than those raised on survival. -Joy Marino

  • Why are you living in the past? Because it holds the answers to why the present is so painful. -Nate Postlethwait

  • My greatest accomplishment is that I’ve become the person who would have protected me as a child. -source unknown

  • Trauma comes back as a reaction, not a memory. -Bessel van der Kolk

  • How great if we lived in a world where people were as curious about what was done to us, as they are judgmental in how we coped with it. -Nate Postlethwait

  • So many of our deepest wounds can be summarized by: I had to be protected from the people I was supposed to be protected by. -Hailey Paige Magee

Grief

  • Grief is just love with no place to go. -Jamie Anderson

  • My grief whispers, “I need things to be different.” And the universe sighs, “Oh, but this is how they are.” --Daniell Koepke

  • Grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. This is the last act of loving someone. And you realize that it will never end. You get to do this to translate this last act of love for the rest of your life. - Ocean Vuong

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