Sharon Weil

Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.

The stories I tell myself about myself are contexts for what I believe is possible. These stories affect not only my attitudes about myself and others, but affect my behavior in what could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Ursula, we have to talk_' he said, almost blurting. He couldn__ believe he was in the __e have to talk_ position. It was so unnerving. 'I have to ask you_ Let__ be each other__ emergency contact numbers.' This was his first concession towards commitment.

Lovers remain in each other's energy fields for 21 days after intercourse. Renewed with each act. Do the math. Choose wisely... otherwise you're carrying that stink with you for a long time...Stop having sex right now!...All of you. Until you know you're not giving yourselves away." - Sheerah

You can fuck me if you want," she said. "I know a man needs to be able to say thank you - and words don't always come so easy.

Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.

We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.

The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.

Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line.

Healing is essential for lasting change. ...healing is a transformation, not just a quick fix; a change from an inhibited or impaired state to one of greater health, integration and connection. What was damaged must be soothed, repaired, restored, and given new pathways in which to grow and flourish. In order for change to be thorough, old patterns need to be dissolved, and new, more coherent and refined constructs, formed. In creating coherency in new forms, what has become fragmented or separated, injured or diseased must be made whole again, or perhaps made whole for the first time.

Emotions have their own movement. They move like waves: huge tsunami waves, choppy rapids, or long slow tides. The best way I know to work with emotion, especially strong and difficult emotion is to let it move like a wave, allow it to complete its movement and, eventually, to leave. If the movement gets held back, if it gets trapped and stagnates, or an inner turbulence stirs, the unexpressed emotion and grief can turn into physical illness, fatigue, depression, anxiety, or other displaced emotion.

Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn__ work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.

Loss is an inevitable part of change.

The more I can accept the fact that change is moving all the time, and that the change I am experiencing right now is just the change of this moment and that this moment will change into the next and the next, the less need I will have to clutch in fear.

In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen.

Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.

The nature of Nature is change.

Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.