There Is Just So Much Excess In

People Are More Afraid To Love Than They Are To Kill.

I Think When People Begin To Tell Their Stories, Everything Changes, Because Not Only Are You Legitimized In The Telling Of Your Story And Are You Found, Literally, Like You Matter, You Exist In The Telling Of Your Story, But When You Hear Your Story Be Told, You Suddenly Exist In Community And With Others.

But My Body Was Telling Its Story. I Have Read A Lot Of Stuff About Cancer. I Needed This Book. I Wish I'd Had This Book When I Had Cancer. I Wanted Someone To Be Talking To Me About "fart Floors." I Wanted Somebody Telling Me What It Was Like To Have A Colostomy Bag. I Felt So Alone. And If You're A Person Who's Been Traumatized By Past Abuse, It's So Potentially Re-traumatizing. You Slip Right Into "oh My God, This Is The Only Person This Has Happened To Before" Mentality: "i'm Especially Bad And I Have Especially Bad Cancer..."

I Wake Up Every Day And I Think, 'i'm Breathing! It's A Good Day.'

If You Are Connected To Your Own Internal Being, It Is Very Hard To Be Screwing And Destroying And Hurting Another Human Being, Because You’ll Be Feeling What They’re Feeling. If You’re Separated, It’s Not A Hard Thing To Do At All.