When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.

By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.