Quarterlife

I cannot ensure that Quarterlifers graduate from high school with at least the basics of financial literacy, the foundations of cooking and nutrition, an introduction to healthy communication, boundary setting, and the dangers of abuse in dating, as well as some fundamentals around healthcare and self-care that could quickly improve quality of life

To be alive is to be embodied. To be embodied is to struggle and thrive and struggle and thrive. This inherent oscillation is our birthright. Our charter is to learn how to ride the changes, become our fullest selves, create, and love. I am clear that life’s complications and even suffering—as many theologians, philosophers, and psychologists befor

I needed to know that there was at least a possibility for a different life.

Bit by bit, all of Grace’s work had begun to flower like a garden thoughtfully planted and tended. She was Integrating what she’d learned and composting the rest. More and more, her past traumas were just fertilizer for her future.

She was slowly shifting her sense of her own limits, neither enmeshed and reliant on one person nor entirely available to her group of friends like a living blood bank, offering up her veins to anyone who needed her energy, attention, or wise counsel. Grace had begun to be able to hear what her body and feelings were saying. She’d learned to subtly

Things were distinctly more stable and energizing for her, and meaningful too.

Our work, and the integration of all he’d learned, was not a conclusion, but a new beginning.

He needed to practice coming back to the self-awareness and rigor of self-care when he forgot, to work on communication with his parents and partners, and to allow himself to pursue true joy, even when it seemed scary, put him at odds with his folks, or made him an outsider for a time.

work hard to stay connected to his body and build healthy routines.