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“How do we see what’s there besides ‘good’ or ‘bad’? The word gazing comes to mind – a kind of open and sustained looking.” ~Lynda Barry
Katie Willard Virant Psychotherapy
Compassionate and creative psychotherapy
“How do we see what’s there besides ‘good’ or ‘bad’? The word gazing comes to mind – a kind of open and sustained looking.” ~Lynda Barry
“People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.’ ~Eudora Welty
“Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.” ~Seamus Heaney
“We cannot live a full and meaningful life if we are not in touch with what we feel or what we want.” ~Paul Wachtel
“If I was going to live – if I was going to stay alive another day – I realized I had to let the world in. I had to be part of something real, and to do that I had to let people see me as I was.” ~Paul Murray
“[E]verybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.” ~ Adam Phillips
“[L]ooking led to noticing led to appreciating.” ~Gretchen Rubin
“Dances come from dancing. I don’t make a dance. I dance and then something starts to make sense.” ~Twyla Tharp
“The right to have rights, or the right of every individual to belong to humanity, should be guaranteed by humanity itself.” ~Hannah Arendt
*Photo credit: Elizabeth Flaherty
“Stories are real. And stories can change. If your story isn’t working for you, you can find a better one to take its place.” ~ Seth Godin