Sarah Grace

“Healing—breaking the cycle of abuse—is often filled with resistance to the possibility of change. That possibility intensifies the conflict between the part of the self that strives for future liberation and the part that is connected to the past and to previous generations. Healing is a journey filled with ambivalence, guilt, and shame. It is a p

Mary Edwards Walker said the exact same thing. “You men are not our protectors… If you were, who would there be to protect us from?”

-Celeste Davis Matriarchal Blessing 12/22/24

“The loyalty to the people we are attached to often keeps a part of us with them even when we leave. Our parents tend to live inside us without our permission. Our relationships with them are the first we have, and our future relationships with them exist only in dialogue with them.”

—Galit Atlas, “Emotional Inheritance”

“Let’s say you have a wounded hand. Maybe it’s broken, has a gash in it, a burn – something painful. You’re sitting on a park bench one afternoon daydreaming of your perfect partner and yearning to be held, nurtured, loved, understood. Someone cute comes along and says, “I’ve been admiring you for a while. I’d love to sit here with you and get to k

“Because of your cave, because of who you had to become, you have an inner kind of bioluminescence—that incomprehensible ability to create light where there was none. And now you know dear one, dear warm-blooded wonderer whose soul’s journey into the wise and wild wilderness is about to begin, now you know how to see in the dark.”

-Sez Kristiansen

“On Substack, creators own their content and their mailing list, guaranteeing that they can always connect directly with their community—even if they leave the platform. They also have a clear and reliable way to make money, from direct subscriptions. There is a powerful discovery system in Substack, with a social-media-like feed but with the twist