“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.”
“Tell the story often of how you healed. Your journey will be someone's road map.”
Source: Dandelion Ch;ld: An Autistic Life Shattered and Reforged
“To love is to give someone your broadsword, kneel before them, and bare your chest, all while trusting you can heal yourself if they run you through.”
Source: Dandelion Ch;ld: An Autistic Life Shattered and Reforged