“Play is the child’s symbolic language of self-expression and can reveal what the child has experienced; their reactions and feelings about what was experienced; and what the child wishes, wants, or needs.”

― Garry L. Landreth 

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way – things I had no words for." 

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“When we become parents we are given an incredible opportunity to grow as individuals because we ourselves are put back into an intimate parent-child relationship, this time in a different role.”

― Daniel J. Siegel

“Sand tray can be an embodied conversation between our inner world and outer awareness, held and witnessed by another... we have the opportunity to make contact with implicit memories that have no words." 

― Bonnie Badenoch