There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.

Making a U-turn from our thoughts to our feelings re-connects us to our own inner experience and creates the grounds for connecting with others in a more authentic way. It's a movement from head to heart.

Somewhere in my early twenties I realized I was pretty constantly monitoring myself, judging how I was always falling short, whether it was about not being a good enough daughter or friend, or my appearance, or whatever. I ended up becoming involved with a spiritual path in the yogic tradition, living in an ashram, doing a very rigorous spiritual practice.

Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.