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“Wisdom and freedom require the ability to allow the natural flow of emotions to come and go, experiencing emotions but not being controlled by emotions. Always having to prevent or suppress emotions is a form of being controlled by emotions.”
― Marsha M. Linehan, DBT Skills Training: Manual

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. —Ursula K. Le Guin”
― Sue Johnson, Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships

“Trauma is any terrifying event that instantly changes the world as we know it, leaving us helpless and emotionally overwhelmed.”
― Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

“When we are free, we can look in the face of our cravings and desires and say "I don't have to satisfy you.”
― Marsha M. Linehan, DBT Skills Training: Manual