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Sabrina Ward Harrison is a Canadian artist and author.She is the creator of five published books of her journals, the first one being published when she was 23, Spilling Open; The Art of Becoming Yourself . The True And the Questions; a journal is based on the teaching of "The Art of Becoming Yourself", a course she created in 1996.

She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin and hosts a podcast called Room in the Trees.. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. December 1975
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Famous Sabrina Ward Harrison Quotes

“We are all carrying so many things in our life and inside ourselves. Often it feels there is no place to put them down. Where do you place the questions you carry”

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Source: Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.”

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Source: Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

“TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE

i don't know
if I will
ever understand
this Ache.
Perhaps it is
simpley and completely
Love and


what

HAPPENS.
at the end.

Loss

November 17, early morning”

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Source: Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

“I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good.

I have learned that silence hurts.

I have learned about starting over
and releasing pride.”

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Source: Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

“What we don't let out traps us. We think, "No one else feels this way, I must be crazy." So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. "Why do I feel this way? Last week, I was on top of the world and now my feelings don't make sense." Voicing it, getting it out and letting it other people hear it, helps to dissipate it. The fears and self-criticisms begin to leak. And we begin to heal.”

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Quoted by Katherine Martin in Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them, p. 268 (1999)

Sabrina Ward Harrison Quotes

“Belong to yourself.”

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Source: Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

“Who do you let in?”

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

“Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.”

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Quoted in [Buchwald, Laura, 2003, http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/sharrison.html, "Authors: Sabrina Ward Harrison", The Modern Library, RandomHouse.com, 2007-09-21]

“May Sarton said, "the deeper you go, the more universal you become." It's a reminder to me that those things I try to convince myself I don't need to admit are usually those things I need the most to say. Speaking the truth, in its most poignant details, is liberating and gives those around us the freedom to be real.”

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Quoted by Katherine Martin in Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them, p. 269 (1999)

“I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. Sometimes it is very lonely. But I know the lonely times teach me the most. I must let go in order to let anything in. No one can love me, for me. Take a big walk protected in the trees. I miss the time before today.”

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself (2000)

“The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself.”

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself, Introduction (2000)

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