Candy Spender-van Rood

“Autonomic listening is inextricably linked with the need for self-compassion.”
― Deb Dana, Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory

“Love is also a force of light and nurture that liberates you to inhabit to the full your own difference. There should be no imitation of each other; no need to be defensive or protective in each other’s presence. Love should encourage and free you fully into your full potential.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“(Feminist woman) is too concerned with trying to be man's equal, and so discounts all differences, physiological as well as psychological. She never depreciates man, for her aim is to be like a man, equal to a man, no whit his inferior. She no longer has any standpoint for criticism for him, because she has sold her birthright, her feminine inheritance, her uniqueness, by cancelling the difference arising from the fact that she is female.”
― Mary Esther Harding, The Way of All Women

“The cycle of reciprocity, rupture, and repair is the nature of healthy relationships.”
― Deb Dana, Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory