Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.

As long as we can feel hope, there is hope.

Every time I open Facebook, I see a post with something like, "We must forgive or be prisoners of our own bitterness and hate." People think that forgiveness is all-or-nothing, but this myth hurts people. You can forgive 10, 97, or 14 percent. Forgiveness is complicated.

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.