Dr. Keean's Holistic Trauma-Informed Coaching Psychotherapy

“I felt small after seeing the cosmos.”

“You only felt small because you went in there with an ego that was unjustifiably too large to begin with.”

I got in there with no such ego. I look up at the stars and I learn from modern astrophysics that the elements in our body were forged in stars that exploded. The oxygen, the carbon, the nitrogen, the iron that courses through our blood was forged in stars that at the end of their lives exploded scattering that enrichment into the galaxy, out of which the next generation of stars and planets are formed. Earlier in the universe, we didn’t have the ingredients, so we could not exist in our current form. When I look up, I don’t feel small. I feel large. Because I’m connected to the cosmos. Chemically. That connectivity, if we make it a little more poetic, not only are we alive in this universe, the universe is alive within us. That fact borders on the spiritual. There is an astrophysical fact that gives you a pathway of relevance, to the universe. We are part of this great unfolding cosmic story. The fact that we are made of elements forged in the stars. Next time you go out and look up at the cosmos, I want you to feel large, not small. Because we are not only made of what stars have produced, we are solar powered.” - Neil Degrasse Tyson

To be nobody but yourself--in a world that is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. -e.e. cummings

"It's impossible," said pride. "It's risky," said experience. "It's pointless, " said reason. "Give it a try," whispered the heart. -unknown