I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

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

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

The answers we're looking for are all within ourselves, we just need to become better connected, more present - to what we eat, to nature, to our surroundings and to our inner guide.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.