If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is how people get to the top of Everest.

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.