Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

This is life...by all means necessary

Trust God and leave the consequences to him. My mentor, Dr. Charles Stanley

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.

Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.

A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.