“You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.” ~Tony Gaskins It was a Tuesday afternoon when I said the word that saved my sanity: “No.” Just two letters. But the weight I’d been carrying for twenty-eight years finally...

‘Attachment operates as wanting something or wanting more. And anger is also wanting—wanting to reject, wanting to put off. So, according to Buddhism, both of these two emotions are undesirable.’ Geshe Tashi Tsering

I am Sandy, a single 52-year-old woman who has a mental illness, but I am pretty. All my life I've been pretty, and I used my looks to get by and to make money. I never thought that one day, my looks would be gone. I never developed personality traits beyond that. I...