We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom.

It's the beginning of opening to love. Even if there's not much feeling of compassion toward oneself, just say, "It's okay, sweetheart," or "I'm sorry and I love you."

I think of depression as the mechanism that pushes down the pain of that loss. It tries to distance us from the loss but it lowers our whole energy level. I think that's a pervasive way we end up responding to loss or the anticipation of loss. Natural but not necessary.

By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades.

If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.