“Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place.
That’s where the light enters you.”
Rumi
This quote has been helpful regarding facing my fears. The earlier chapters of my book chronicle all of the disorders I experienced as a child and teenager-OCD, anorexia, substance abuse. I kept running away from the sadness and the depression, which would morph into these other illnesses. So when I finally sat tight long enough to feel the raw depression, that’s when I could begin to heal. As you know well, I think taking a moment of silence to pray or meditate or center ourselves everyday should be part of everyone’s treatment … because when we stop running, we are able to hear what we most need to be whole.
Therese Borchard, author of Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes
