ABOUT JANE V. TILLMAN

Jane is a a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Child Mental Health Specialist (CMHS) with over twelve years of experience working with children, adolescents and adults in agencies and private practice settings. More on Jane ...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines principles and practices of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eastern Mindfulness (Zen), Biosocial Theory and Dialectics. DBT is compassionate, validating and life changing. More on DBT ...

Expressive Arts and Play Therapy As our imagination becomes activated and absorbed in the freedom of art and play, our linear or rational thinking processes of labeling and making judgements are temporarily suspended. More on Art and Play ...

ABOUT EXPRESSIVE HEARTS

What I have found is that many of us tend to be so driven by external demands and expectations in life that we lose sight of our most meaningful connection of all: to our hearts. More on Expressive Hearts...

Resources, Quotes and Links...

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"Peace... it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work... it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart." - Unknown

"...be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." Rilke

"And your doubt may become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become critical. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proof from it, test it, and you will find it perplexed and embarrassed perhaps, or perhaps rebellious. But don't give in, insist on arguments and act this way, watchful and consistent, every single time, and the day will arrive when from a destroyer it will become one of your best workers-- perhaps the cleverest of all that are building at your life." - Rilke

". . . . perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princes or princesses who are only waiting to see us once again beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. So you must not be frightened . . . if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any agitation, any pain, any melancholy, since you really do not know what these states are working upon you?" - Rilke

"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Carrol

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too." Scottish Himalayan Expedition