Defensiveness is for people who are afraid that what they have can be taken from them. - Glennon Doyle

I do not want my children to become people who abandon themselves to please the crowd.

of mental illness is not that I'm sad but that I'm not anything. Mental illness makes me miss my own life. Depression, for me, is a forgetting, an erasing, a slow fade into nothingness. It is like I run out of Glennon, and there is nothing left but panic that I am gone forever this time. Depression takes all my vibrant colors and bashes them together until I am gray, gray, gray.

As I climbed out of the tub and shook my hair dry, I told myself: Maybe in a different life. Isn't that interesting? As if I had more than one.