We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

I am capable of feeling, but I am not what I feel. I am the being who experiences my feelings. Therefore, I can change what I feel and still be me.

People express their feelings with people they know well, are close to, and trust.

Expressing feelings and emotions about unresolved experiences can make you vulnerable. Do it only with safe people.

It is important to stay in a tough situations long enough to learn the lessons that it has to teach. When it's done -- it's done. Walk away and don't look back.

People can learn to open themselves to the full range of both pleasant and unpleasant feelings and emotions. There seems to be a real choice: go numb to all feelings; or be willing to embrace all feelings