If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.

You have far more power to heal and be healthy than you ever dreamed possible. Your health is not outside of you. And you don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.

You don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.

By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it.

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

No matter what you’re feeling, the only way to get a difficult feeling to go away is simply to love yourself for it. If you think you’re stupid, then love yourself for feeling that way. It’s a paradox, but it works. To heal, you must be the first one to shine the light of compassion on any areas within you that you feel are unacceptable.

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.