Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.