while rock bottom feels like the end — it's always the beginning of something. I knew that this was the moment I'd either relapse with a couple shots… - Glennon Doyle

This is the most revolutionary thing a woman can do: the next precise thing, one thing at a time, without asking permission or offering explanation. This way of life is thrilling. I understand now that no one else in the world knows what I should do. The experts don't know, the ministers, the therapists, the magazines, the authors, my parents, my friends, they don't know. Not even the folks who love me the most. Because no one has ever lived or will ever live this life I am attempting to live, with my gifts and challenges and past and people. Every life is an unprecedented experiment. This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they've never been. There is no map. We are all pioneers.

Being fully human is not about feeling happy, it's about feeling everything.

I'm willing to lose anything that requires me to hide any part of myself.