Lisa Christie, Ph.D.

Human rights are basic. They only become "political" when someone is seeking to deny them to others. tricycle.org/trikedaily/bud…

You are enough. You have enough. You do enough. ~Sark

Since the verbal abuser needs to have Power Over his partner, he cannot accept her as an equal. He may, however, tell her that he does. ~Patricia Evans

Some of the best advice I ever received: "Be friendly with what is." ~Erin McClaine

This (feminist) revolution may well be also the greatest single hope for survival of spiritual consciousness on this planet. - Mary Daly

You have a primary responsibilty to take care of yourself.

All progress must grow from a seed of self-appreciation. ~ Anon.

The past is over; the now is new, fresh, and limitless. ~Rokelle Lerner

I owe it to myself to pay attention to the needs of my body, mind, and spirit. ~CTC

Our time & energy is our life. It's valuable and so, it is is good to make the most of how we spend it.

No relationship can survive without truthfulness. ~BMM

As we seek to express what we are longing to say, someone or something longing to hear precisely what we have expressed. ~Julia Cameron

If you are with a verbal abuser, it is important that you realize that you haven't done anything to make him hostile. [It has to do with power-over.] ~Patricia Evans, The Verbally Abusive Relationship

By uncovering the unconscious rules of the power game and the methods by which it attains legitimacy, we are certainly in a position to bring about basic changes. ~Alice Miller

Gardens build community & no person should go hungry or be without good food. ~Ron Finley "The Guerilla Gardner"

If we allow ourselves to do something badly, we might find in time we're quite good at it. ~Julia Cameron

Every mistake we ever made was because we were ignorant of something in the moment. ~BMM

Dominator culture twists the psyche, leading to armored personalities where people feel alienated and repressed. This can erupt in irrational violence, as we are seeing now.

The worst thing that someone can say about you contains some truth about them. ~ Deepak Chopra

What is healed is the rift between our spiritual stature & our mistaken perceptions of ourselves as flawed. ~Julia Cameron

When the partner can recognize and validate her feelings, she can begin to recognize verbal abuse. If she shares her feelings with the abuser, he will invalidate them. ~Patricia Evans, The Verbally Abusive Relationship