Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change

Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long.

Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.

When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt.