My younger self would have felt dismayed to learn that the emotional roller coasters, life quakes, and bittersweet changes never really go away. She had such a naive, utopian view of what "personal growth" meant. In her eyes, it was the equivalent of waving a wand and — poof — vanishing all her troubles and instantly re... See more

I can see that I’m lot kinder to myself in the aftermath of these moments. There’s a lot less judgment, and I'm a lot quicker to apologize and try to repair. I can objectively say that my life is one thousand percent better sober, yet I can’t stop imagining the other lives that I want or obsessing over the lives I haven’t had. And then all of my ch... See more