“Confidence creates trust, and trust creates confidence.”
“S.T.A.R.T. Serving, thanking, asking, and receiving are the fast track to trust in personal and business relationships. Why? Because when we live these principles, we are actively working to build our character, which is the most direct channel to increased feelings of self-worth and confidence and thus competence, productivity, and meaningful success—all of which are at the foundational level of trust.”
“Maraming pwedeng humadlang sa'tin, but you have to promise me na sa akin ka lang maniniwala, that I will love and follow you until the end of time.”
Source: SIMPLY IRREPLACEABLE
“This is where all the work we have done with ourselves to sense the connection between our bodily sensations and implicit memories comes to help our person. Our conviction that this is the doorway to the deeper places provides a foundation, through resonance, for him to slow down and attend to his body.”
Source: The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Group Psychotherapy and Group Process
“Moving slowly, listening, noticing when my own intentions are trying to take over, and pausing in that moment have so often proved to be the most respectful and effective path of healing.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“we may never know exactly when or how this began, but if we acknowledge this little one, she will somehow know that we are listening to her.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“So many of us who choose this work come from backgrounds of pain and fear that have been instrumental in calling us to now co-suffer with others as they find the courage to approach their wounds.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“We stayed with the one who felt dead inside, acknowledging his protective value, even though we had no cognitive awareness of who and what he was sheltering ...
'What is this depression, this one who is so still, wanting to tell us?”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“The first step is the same for all of us: put down the cigarette, or your preferred nicotine-based weapon of choice. The next step, and the one after, and the one after that, for as long as it takes for the veil of illusion to lift – and lift it will, I promise you, if you give time time – is a walk in the park, compared to your life as a smoker. Just keep on walking. Trust yourself. Trust the process. Trust anything, but the lies your nicotine addiction is telling you.”
“When an artist leans heavily on form, there's a possibility they don't trust or understand the material. Sometimes layers can elevate a work, but some things are better served if they are merely allowed to exist.”