The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently...

Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure.

OK, it’s over.” Maybe never. Maybe sooner than I know. I recently told Dr. Driscoll that I feel the beginnings of feeling OK, that this is the right path.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace...

World’s definition of successmaterial validation of selfcold and naked substitutefor inner warmth and beauty.

Anyhow, even though I might go out on a date with a boy, emotionally I just wouldn’t be able to concentrate. I’d be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere...

The most important thing in defining child sexual abuse is the experience of the child. It takes very little for a child’s world to be devastated. A single experience can have a profound impact on...

You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.

Once you commit and decide that there is no turning back, you’ll find the strength.

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again. Everything we do is part of who we...

My hand-stitched wings itchto take flightto test the winds of changethat inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after...

Acceptance” is the most beautiful word in the English language.

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

If I was lonely, if I was afraid of being alone, then why abandon myself? Why run to someone else looking to give myself the thing that only I could give? I wanted to escape...

I wrote in my journal about how good I felt when I was not living under Ed’s control. Then, when I really felt like giving up, I read these pages and realized that I was...

Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March……….I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world…I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living...

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

I think I just said it, but I think it’s worth repeating. They gave me hope that there is good in the world out there. There really is. It really does exist. Regardless of how...

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.