Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.

Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.

Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.

Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.

Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line.

Healing is essential for lasting change. ...healing is a transformation, not just a quick fix; a change from an inhibited or impaired state to one of greater health, integration and connection. What was damaged must be soothed, repaired, restored, and given new pathways in which to grow and flourish. In order for change to be thorough, old patterns need to be dissolved, and new, more coherent and refined constructs, formed. In creating coherency in new forms, what has become fragmented or separated, injured or diseased must be made whole again, or perhaps made whole for the first time.