Happiness Junkie: A 12 Step Program to Find Inner Peace and Change Your Life

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. —David Viscott

Shame is the intensely painful feeling that we are unworthy of love and belonging. —Brené Brown

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time. —Byron Katie

if I couldn’t give him unconditional love, it also meant that I wasn’t giving it to myself.

May I be peaceful. May I be happy. May my heart be open. May I know the beauty of my own true self. May I be healed. And in my healing may others heal.

Shaming operates by giving children a negative image about their selves—rather than about the impact of their behavior.” — Good Children—at What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame,

“Fear is not a red light. It doesn’t mean stop. Fear is a yellow light. It means caution.”

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading. — Kevin Smith

Now, I use Absolute Aims (AAs) instead of goals. Aims are set with many paths to choose that lead to them. As long as you move Absolutely in the direction of your Aim, you are on target.