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" To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. "

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" If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. "

" We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit. "

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" Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower. "

" When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life. "

" Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career. "

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" I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while. "

" We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse. "

" Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older. "

" Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream. "

" I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children. "

" In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network. "

" This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life. "

" I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories. "

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" Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. "

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" Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral. "

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" My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment. "

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" One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change. "