With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts..

Girls have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much, be polite,but be yourself, be….

We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or ….

Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self….

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a ….

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen..

People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can tea….

The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy..

we are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk..

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country..

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking..

Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble ….

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisio….

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change..

When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land a….

Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the….

Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness ….

Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong. Their daughters ….

I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin a….

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts..