Empathy provides more than just information about relationships. It is an expression of being in relationship. It is not just a means to better healing relationship, but because it recenters relationship as a central organizing feature of psychic life, empathy itself is healing. The experience of being known and accepted deeply by another, being aware of another being aware of you, what Jordan calls "mutual empathy".

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

I have never lost my faith in God.

A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!