The Choice

what I knew. That I made the right choice. But she can’t say that, or even if she did, I wouldn’t ...

different word. Or nothing at all. I could have followed her to the showers and died with her ...

gray, unremarkable. I squeeze the stone. In Jewish tradition, we place small stones on graves as a sign o ...

the blast of bullets. For a split second I am a terriĕed girl again, a girl who is in danger. I am ...

PART IV HEALING ...

CHAPTER 20 The Dance of Freedom One of the last times I saw Viktor Frankl was at the ird Worl ...

find our unique purpose and our strength. ere is no one-size-ĕts-all template for healing, but there are st ...

Tuning into the feeling itself, and to how it was moving in his body, would help him stay with it until it ...

Once we are recognizing and taking responsibility for our feelings, we can learn to recognize and take resp ...

usually fell asleep on the couch. “at’s not all,” she said. She was listing all the evid ...

he started working hard on his sobriety. is was precisely what his wife had been praying ...

well-being. If Ling says, “I can only be happy and at peace if Jun stops drinking,” she leaves herself vulner ...

In the Haggadah, the Jewish text that tells the story of liberation from slavery in Egypt and ...

positive thinking—but change and freedom also require positive action. Anything we practice, we bec ...

of distance and hostility? She had learned to manage her fear by trying to exert control. She would snif ...

* Trying to be the caretaker who sees to another person’s every need is as problematic as ...

captivity. Yet I’ve witnessed again and again how willingly we hand over our spiritual and ...

parties, when other women Ęirted with Todd, she would feel chills of jealousy or inadequacy. Sometimes ...

What was in it for you?” “I wanted him to be successful, and he was so happy when I helped.” “A ...

brought a young man with her. It was Todd. Elise was all smiles. Her depression was over, she said. ...