“At its worst, the purpose of a psych ward is to normalize you back into a community that is anything but. Its purpose is not to heal you, but to make you stay sick so that you can function alongside the lies of a country steeped in them, so you can function alongside the lies you are forced to tell about yourself. We are all doubling in order to live, and the psych ward tells you to squash that inner knowing. It's simply not useful if you hope to thrive. At its best, psychiatric care gives you tools to let your inner knowing walk alongside the insanity of the world and create survival tools to trust what you know and survive the gaslighting and discrimination that seeks to burn down your house.”
Source: Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
“Nature doesn't listen to you but you must listen to nature if you want to be happy.”
Source: Mucysless Diet Healing System : Scientific Method of Eating Your Way to Health
“Imelda held out the nightshade. "This plant is both poisonous and medicinal. It can bring death with a touch, and healing when used with knowledge. Every person, like this nightshade, is comme ci, comme ça, like this, like that. Good, bad, poison, remedy. The world isn't divided into heroes and villains, but a spectrum of choices. Learn to discern who wields their poisonous nature, who uses darkness to inflict pain. And more importantly," she softened her voice, "learn to recognize who offers healing, who nurtures, even when carrying shadows.”
Source: Under The Blood Moon
“The greatest wound of all is to have healed from all our wounds, but to have never grown in the healing.”
“Even self-touch can have profound effects… activating the same calming pathways as being touched by another person.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,” dropping the keys in Ennis’s hand. He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream.”
Source: Brokeback Mountain
“Play is primal. It’s not a frivolous pastime—it’s a radical act of reclaiming joy and creativity in a world that often feels too serious.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Freeze is not a weakness. Fawn is not surrendering.”
Source: Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing
“Pay attention... Sometimes the “cure” healers offer is the very thing keeping you unwell.”
“The world does not need us
to repeat the wounds we inherited —
it needs us to heal them.
To become conscious
is to honor our ancestors
by interrupting patterns,
not by perpetuating chains.
The true revolution
is to break the cycle
and choose to be
the root of healing.”