If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades.

It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.

When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way.

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.