But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.