“As the pressure builds, I keep gently reminding myself that we can and will handle whatever challenges inevitably come our way. Living in relationship with the seasons includes suffering as well as freedom…the external is a fractal for the internal.”

"Most of my life I didn't know what I was feeling. I had a steadfast solution for it though: Stuff It Back Down. It was a deeply uncomfortable feeling for myself and others. It was easier to stuff it down or at least I thought it was."