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“People’s lives here are easier and harder all at once. They’re never at risk, but their safety and stability can turn into a cage. They’re free to pursue their dreams, but they’re held back by the responsibilities that come along with them.”
― Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

“It’s interesting-most people think about therapy as something that involves going in and undoing what’s happened. But whatever your past experiences created in your brain, the associations exist and you can’t just delete them. You can’t get rid of the past.
Therapy is more about building new associations, making new, healthier default pathways. It is almost as if therapy is taking your two-lane dirt road and building a four-lane freeway alongside it. The old road stays, but you don’t use it much anymore. Therapy is building a better alternative, a new default. And that takes repetition, and time, honestly, it works best if someone understands how the brain changes. This is why understanding how trauma impacts our health is essential for everyone.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room
still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love.”
― Louise Gluck, Winter Recipes from the Collective

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Z”
― Isaac Asimov, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing