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“Your body is a preposterously powerful, highly attuned machine just the way it is, and the alarm bells it hears (through aches and pains and nagging worries) are notices being dispatched from central command.”

“This life is an Equal Swagger Opportunity. We all have an absolute right to swagger, like a Texas oil man with Western boots, a cowboy hat, and a leathery tan—the whole rich, old white dude package.”

“Tell your story please. I want to hear it. The state of the world is heavy, and the only way to sustain our collective well-being is to listen: to each other and to the messages coming from our own bodies.”

“When we trust our bodies to tell us about hunger and fullness, exhaustion and energy, they communicate everything we could ever need to know about how to survive and how to thrive.”

“Trees grow stronger in response to the wind, and their roots grow deeper. This moment in history may feel like it’s planted in the path of a category 5 hurricane. It has ripped us up, but it has also rooted us, weaving us together beneath the surface of the ground and leaving us stronger than ever. We can grieve the loss while, at the same time, falling madly in love with what it has mobilized in us: caring, grace, companionship, openness, and uncensored, outspoken truth-telling. Dying can teach us a great deal about living.”

“I led the counselor, probation officer, my teachers, my parents, and everyone else to believe that I was a good kid who’d just slipped up and made a few blunders. I made them think I was putting my all into recovery when, in reality, the only thing I was putting my best effort towards was deceiving each of them. My intellect allowed me to maintain the style of life I wanted, right underneath their noses.”