Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy.

Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

Every day is your day if you claim it.

Had I not spent so much time doing something that made me so miserable, I would have never learned how to appreciate doing what brings me joy.