With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.

In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities...And we can find new joy in the ordinary.