"…in therapy I got this realization of how I was thrill-seeking all the time!  I only felt alive from high or low feelings. I mixed up feeling calm with feeling nothing.”

15 year old Arterie client
“Doing that inventory of how many accommodations we had subsumed into day-to-day parenting was a truth bomb. Even before changing anything, it explained my stress levels."

~Parent of child in therapy
“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I wouldn’t trade out those brutally hard times if it meant losing the learning I've had, the wisdom I've found, since then.”

Adult Arterie client

"…in therapy I got this realization of how I was thrill-seeking all the time! I only felt alive from high or low feelings. I mixed up feeling calm with feeling nothing.”

“Doing that inventory of how many accommodations we had subsumed into day-to-day parenting was a truth bomb. Even before changing anything, it explained my stress levels."