To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.

I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.

The love is all around us. I made a life of love.

I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.

I think many of us get separated from the mothership - our body - early on. I think the mothership is also the Earth, and life itself. Trauma separates us from that and dissociates us from our hearts.

I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.