Because it’s not just our minds that experience trauma - our bodies were there for it, too. So, the body needs to be engaged in the healing process.

What we can’t articulate controls us.

When we put words to our shame, they lose their power.

Empathy is not a finite resource. Compassion doesn’t run out because you spend it on someone else.

We have the right to scribble things that are dramatic and extreme and maybe downright untrue, in the course of trying to process difficult emotions.

We are controlled by what we cannot articulate. In the moment when we put pen to paper and declare what is real and true - we set ourselves free.

Many of us are feeling shattered these days and we’re wondering how we’re ever going to get put back together.

It’s not like having an illness that we’re trying to cure.
It’s like having an injury that we’re trying to heal.