chaos is the first step in the creative process.

We actually do generate some new cells, some new neurons. So in the case of trauma there is the potential for there to be some new neural development which gives the person the chance to create new circuitry.

I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.

Who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe.

From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating language, is dependent on a group of cells inside of my brain functioning in a healthy, happy way. I realized in order to get well I had to make the cells that performed those functions well again. It gave me an entirely different way to look at myself as an individual and at all of us as people.

I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think