Did you know that I'm a control freak? Yep. That's how I learned to be compassionate. Before self-love, I had to look harshly on all the uptight, wound-up habits I have in the world. (There's a lot, and they're hilarious.) The only way I could live with them was to learn how to love them. Great counselling has taught me to regard uptight clenching as my "growth zone," and that I can love myself anyways. By loving my stiffness, closed-mindedness, and other unsavoury digression

The healthy adult moves from pose to poise. He wants to be ex-posed so that he can act freely with no further need to invent or protect a se