When a part of me said “No, I’m not changing, I’m not even going to consider that", I was stumped. I felt crushed by negative feelings...

I have spent a lifetime looking for someone else to recognise the light within me and to nourish it for me...

I learnt on the healing journey that perfect was a fantasy, a much-wanted state that paralysed me through life. So why couldn't I let it go?

I had no idea that everything I had ever been desperate for, had lacked and grieved with anger, was already accessible to me...

How can I be unique and independent and protected, as well as connected, surrendered and trusting of others?

Do you ever feel like you’re in a vicious cycle? Doing too much, or feeling you should be doing more, but feeling exhausted and defeated...

One of the greatest gifts the illness has given me has been the grace to fail, to fall, to whimper and wheeze and not know who or what I am.

Don’t allow a broken, misinformed teacher be your life mentor.

I used to live in permanent darkness. I thought the way out was escape. I was wrong. The way out was to turn to look into that darkness...

Learning to trust myself was, and is, the hardest work I’ve ever done. A voice was with me from birth: “you’re not good enough..."