Good Chemistry Quotes

“There is one particular levator muscle above the inner eyebrow. It’s small, and all dogs have it, but wolves don’t. It makes dogs’ eyes look sad or soulful, more like the wide eyes of a baby. You remember all the good chemistry those baby’s eyes can trigger? These”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“In 1971, in what seemed like a backlash against the whole slate of countercultural movements, the Nixon administration criminalized LSD and other hallucinogens, reclassifying them as Schedule I narcotics, with no medical use. The prohibition had little impact on popular use, which continued to grow, but it did effectively shut down medical research until near the beginning of this century.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“In arguments, it’s helpful to mirror what your partner is saying to you. Just repeating what someone said—without adding any extra spin—will, first of all, give both of you time to breathe and calm yourselves. And by using their words exactly as you re-create them, you show you’re paying attention.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“Try it: give somebody a foot rub and you’ll relax too.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“not everyone is comfortable with closeness. Different attachment styles that grow out of the varieties of parental bonds—ambivalent, avoidant, and secure—can influence our style of connection”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“Connect. You know what else is good? Silence. It also encourages neuroplasticity and neurogenesis.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“Be present. Unplug. Feel. Journal. Make art. Dance. Breathe through your nose. Make joy a priority.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“And because of the therapist’s compassion, you’re also likely to be more compassionate toward yourself, to forgive yourself and others associated with trauma.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“Listen, why don’t we take a deep breath together and I’m going to hold your hand and let’s see what sort of sensation comes up”—”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“I had to unlearn some of the things that I’ve learned in my Western medical training,” he said. For example, the prohibition against touch, which is often the thing psychiatric patients need most.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“What makes you stressed? Being separated from your body and your breath, and being separated from your own personal integrity and authenticity. Cannabis”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“If people are sad and scared, they will want to soothe themselves with anything that acts like a drug, which is nearly everything—food, sex, gambling—if you abuse it enough. If oxytocin tamps down the amygdala, the fear center, then people feel safe, which equals less discomfort and therefore less of a need to self-soothe. Then they won’t have the same pressing need for these drugs.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“Every childhood has trauma.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“States with medical marijuana programs report that the number of opiate prescriptions filled and overdoses reported is cut by 25 to 30 percent, while sales of liquor are down 15 percent. Because cannabis can help to put you in a relaxed state, it can fight the effects of stress.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“These drugs aren’t intended to help people connect; they’re designed to help you not mind that you’re disconnected.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“Most frightening of all, I now notice that same terror of loneliness in the searching eyes of babies faced with the back of a cell phone.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

“When it comes to human connection, when we don’t get what we need, we become compulsive in our consumption of nearly everything else. And I can see, nearly everywhere I look, that we are not getting what we need. Not even close.”
― Julie Holland, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics