If you don’t value yourself, you are vulnerable to staying too long in a bad situation.

I have enjoyed steady economic stability and freedom from hardship, and have taken it for granted more than I should have. In recent years, I have become even more aware of how insulated I have been from many obstacles others face by the simple accident of my birth.

If more of us practiced healthy self-care then a less selfish and less angry world would follow.

It is not news that people need human connection, but lately evidence has been mounting to suggest that loneliness may be killing us.