Getting Our Bodies Back Quotes

“So we come upon the radical idea that happiness is not about how many good times we've had and bummers we haven't had, but from being willing to greet life as it occurs, to meet it and respond in its gush and flow. We don't attach ourselves to the contents of life, but we celebrate the very process of being alive.”
― Christine Caldwell, Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing, and Transformation through Body-Centered Psychotherapy

“Defensiveness has a twin sister; her name is denial. Just as our knee jerks before we are even aware of it, defensiveness is a sign of the negation of experience that hallmarks denial. If I am defending myself, if I am in fight/flee/freeze mode, I will deny any reality that does not conform with the skirmish I think I am defending myself against. If I feel like prey, I must deny any perception of you as anything other than a predator. This is how denial adheres to addiction.”
― Christine Caldwell, Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing, and Transformation through Body-Centered Psychotherapy

“Acceptance is not something we can give to a person or thing. It only exists as a function of our relationship to our own experience.”
― Christine Caldwell, Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing, and Transformation through Body-Centered Psychotherapy