About

I’m Sherry Danner—former therapist, author of Nurturing the Light Inside: Overcoming Addiction and Codependency on the Path to Self-Love, and founder of Divine Lines.

I’m now a writer, teacher, and depth psychology PhD student exploring the intersection of boundaries and belonging.

My obsession with boundaries formed both personally and professionally. Personally, it was in the aftermath of decades of self-neglect, codependency and addictions that boundaries became a way of reclaiming my own life. They were a ladder out of the darkness, a way to build myself from the inside out. I developed a deep affection, gratitude, and reverence for them that remains.

And as a therapist, I spent years supporting people as they struggled to honor what was most true for them without losing vital connections. There are never easy answers, but those who wrestle with the questions of personal responsibility and accountability are the bravest among us. I developed a profound feeling of love for those willing to face themselves head on and stand up for what they most deeply value.

In our current culture, these questions have become increasingly urgent. Boundary challenges are at the heart of learning how to protect ourselves from institutions that require self-abandonment without isolating or disconnecting from the connections that sustain our mental health.

I created Divine Lines as a place to pursue these questions in community and develop a growing body of research, teaching, and practice around boundaries that empower and expand us individually and collectively—not a fixed method, but an evolving framework shaped by what emerges.

The work begins with a framework and grows from there as we take boundaries out of theory and into the reality of other people, old patterns, and the human need to belong.

Ultimately, I want Divine Lines to contribute something useful to our understanding of how we become more fully ourselves while remaining connected to one another and participating fully in the world we share.

— Sherry Danner