Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.

Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.