" I guess it shows as well as anything but there is still a stigma, that there is still fear that if we told these intimate stories that reveal our own struggles, we might not be viewed as professional enough, trustworthy enough, or healthy enough for the field."

" If you can say it out loud, it isn't so scary. But contrarily, if we cannot face those parts of ourselves, they grow and expand and become so much scarier. And further if you can't face it, if you can't learn from it."

" I didn't talk to anybody, I would keep to myself. And I didn't realize how it was affecting my family, because I didn't really see it."

" I don't never want my children to be nervous or scared to come talk to me about anything."

" Ya'll ever had one of those siblings to get all the attention and then the other one -- I'm the other one."

" half of the reason why I was suppressing my voice was the same reason why my brother was seeking this attention."

" I didn't know that by feeding this cycle of anxiety with this particular response that I was actually cultivating, fueling, and strengthening OCD."

" What persisted from the experience was obsessive thinking and the cycle of fear that enabled it."

" I saw a station wagon that looked like ours but was brown and had the word sheriff and a gold star emblem on the side. As the man with the whiteboard had walked my father's drivers side, I knew on that day that a cold icy treat would not be in our future."

" do everything that she can to make sure there will never be another four year old sitting in the back of a car blaming herself for all that is wrong with the world because all she wanted was an ice cold icy treat."

" And maybe, maybe this person I'm thinking of, certainly other people Im thinking of, can't get warm, can't get comfortable, can't get dry enough and warm enough."

" I think it's that sort of knowledge born of the body that led to this thing we call the Mobile Thriving Respite."

" So I just want to encourage you, that whatever it is that you are facing or trying to deny, look into it."

" You just learn how to deal with it. And the best time to get is in the beginning to have early intervention so you can start now."