As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

the alchemical properties of journaling showed us how to turn isolation into creative solitude, confinement into connection, and confusion into clarity and calm.

reading someone else’s words before I write always stirs something new in me.

The experience was kaleidoscopic. A sentence, an idea, an anecdote could turn the barrel, refracting and reframing my perspective.

It is possible to alter the course of my becoming.

It taught me that if you’re in conversation with the self, you can be in conversation with the world.

time and calamity have a way of dispelling our illusions

the liminal space between no longer and not yet.