Minds

The second thing you suggested, for I'll Try Anything, was a radical act of self-care every day and I just don’t know who would complain about that.

That’s when I decided that Snapchat shows me how I look to other people — which is pretty damn gorgeous! And then, I felt the self-love start to flow.

Motherhood didn’t pan out the way I anticipated, not even a little bit. It was so much more electrifying and terrifying and amazing than I ever imagined.

You really can’t know how things in your life are impacting you until you do without them. This is what happened when I stopped reading the news.

There was no room for fallibility or even a gray scale of good and bad — perfection was the only option. Dogmatic perfectionism nearly killed me!

“She’s Gotta Have It” came with a much heavier dosage of reality than I expected but, at that moment, it turned out to be what I needed.

So began the long, toxic love affair between my depression and my addiction. They battled silently and stealthily for control over my body and mind.

Look in the corners, in the out-of-the-way spaces, in the barely muttered requests, that’s where you find the good girl. And I'm done being a good girl!