Once you’ve seen what opening your heart does, how can you do less? 

I wish our grief were louder, our community tighter, so we could get on with the business of healing,  of loving even more recklessly, more completely, and with great sloppiness and devotion. 

"Leaky gut syndrome" is said to have symptoms including bloating, gas, cramps, food sensitivities, and aches and pains. But it's something of a medical mystery.

I didn’t know our stories as adopted people could be accurately portrayed outside the bundles of our own skins until I saw Randall do his thing on This Is Us. 

It’s hard listening to Big Mind when you are running your life on your schedule, by rote, by your watch. It’s easy to numb out and do what you do because it’s what you do, but that can lead us to lives of quiet desperation or mornings of road rage or afternoons of wishing we were anywhere but where we were at that moment.

Here is, I think, one of the most powerful things my coach Katie Peuvrelle taught me, and I didn't have to do a thing. As soon as she said it, my mind shifted and my life changed. 

I want to stand up straight now because I get it. It's not to make other people feel better about me: it's so I can feel better not just about myself, but about the world. 

I was so inspired yesterday after writing about Jonny Parker that I went and wrote the book I wish I’d had as a child. Or as an adult. 

Dear, gentle reader. I beg you. Let your creative freak fly. It’s so fun to be with people who are making stuff. It’s like being in nursery school, back when the question was, “How did you do that?!”, back when the response to seeing art was throwing one’s self at a piece of paper or into a pile of dirt or whatever material is at hand and getting jiggy with it.

If you want to know what a dysregulated nervous system feels like, stand in the path of on-coming traffic, have three cups of coffee or however much it takes to give you the spins, and then look at your page-long to-do list.

I can’t believe how fun the last twenty-two days have been. My life was good before I started this 93-day project, but it has been wonderful since. 

Balance can be harder than extreme behaviors. It’s easier in some ways to starve yourself than to feed yourself, but I’m learning to walk the middle path. You can overeat; you can undereat, and you can eat.