Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.

All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.

You can't heal what you can't feel!