Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.

Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.

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.

At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away; it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point.