“Healing your past with the help of a healer or life-mentor might be an easier strategy than passively waiting for mercy and wasting many years in suffering.”
Source: Higher Science of Longevity
“It looked like a wave of green light, beginning with the roots and pulsing through the trunk until it split at the branches. It chased down every limb. Every branch it touched burst into life: leaves budded and then unfurled, and the most glorious scent of green and life and spring and summer all wrapped together filled Kiela's nose, mouth, and body. She felt as if she were breathing in the essence of the forest, alive and full of growth. Leaves layered over one another so fast that the sky disappeared and the sun vanished into a glow of green.
Pressing itself against the trunk of the sycamore, the rabbit-size cloud bear wept tears as bright as diamonds. Its tears rolled down the bark, and where they touched the soil, delicate white flowers bloomed. She'd never seen flowers like it: they were clusters of petals that glowed with the soft, white light of the full moon.”
Source: The Spellshop
“We all like to think that we’ll handle difficult times with clarity and perfection, but we’re all human. If someone has already disclosed to you and you’re realizing that you didn’t respond the way you would now that you know more about sexual assault, it’s not too late to tell them that you’re ready to be a strong support for them.
Educating yourself, apologizing sincerely, and working to support them moving forward will go a long way.”
Source: We Are the Evidence: A Handbook for Finding Your Way After Sexual Assault
“Over time and with a lot of healing work, the hard days will become fewer. But there will still be some, and sometimes they will sneak up on you. Bad days do not mean you have gone backward in your healing. Being able to recognize that you’re having a hard day, identifying the trigger, and knowing what tools might help you get through the hard day are all wins.
Give yourself permission to take a break, breathe, and make yourself your top priority.”
Source: We Are the Evidence: A Handbook for Finding Your Way After Sexual Assault
“After I was assaulted, I felt lost and unsure of how to move forward. And I felt that way again after reporting the crime to law enforcement, and again after the trial for my case concluded. This book was born out of that feeling of being lost, and out of my deep desire to help other survivors find their way.”
Source: We Are the Evidence: A Handbook for Finding Your Way After Sexual Assault
“I find it very difficult to let a friend or beloved go into that country of no return. I answer the heroic question, "Death, where is thy sting?" with "It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“No matter how your body and brain responded, what happened wasn’t your fault.
If you fought with everything you had but were still overpowered, that’s not your fault.
If you tried to run away but couldn’t, that’s not your fault.
If fighting or fleeing didn’t seem like safe options, that’s not your fault.
If your automatic survival response was to comply and attempt to please, that’s not your fault.”
Source: We Are the Evidence: A Handbook for Finding Your Way After Sexual Assault
“When someone says to you, “I’m a Reiki Master,” it’s supposed to sound impressive. But what does it mean? It may simply mean that he or she has paid money to train for a few days with someone who trained with someone else over a few days – and so on. You get the picture. All of a sudden we have an explosion of ‘Masters’ – Reiki Masters, IET Masters, Tantric Masters, Seventh Level Ascended Violet Flame Masters of the Black Star. OK, I made the last one up! But we do have to laugh at ourselves if we believe we’re Masters of something after a few weekends, or now after doing an online course! Who are we fooling?
Real Masters don’t need to tell you that they’re Masters. You’ll know just bye being around them. A real Master is someone who has spent a lifetime getting to know themselves in all their darkness and all their light, without needing to identify with either aspect of the opposite poles that live inside us all. Real Masters are ordinary people, like you, like me, humbled by the immensity of the mystery we are living. They radiate a presence, not a personality. There’s a world of difference.”
Source: The Possibility Exists ...: One Man's Search for Freedom
“You do not crave partnership, you crave connection and because you have not given it to yourself, you search for it in all the wrong places in pursuit of immediate gratification from another person.”
Source: Buy Yourself the Damn Flowers: The self-love guide to growing, healing and learning to put yourself first
“In the journey of wellness, sometimes the path less traveled leads to the most profound healing. Embrace the wisdom of cultures far and wide, for they hold secrets that conventional medicine has yet to uncover.”
Source: Dr Prem's Guide - Wellness Tourism