Read the article at Pacing Ourselves: Learning Moderation - Mockingbird (mbird.com)

We felt that it was important to be good to ourselves, and that this meant that it was dangerous to tell ourselves no. About anything, ever. Repression of one’s desires was an unhealthy thing […]

When did the collision between our appetites and the needs of our souls happen?

How did we come to know that we were dying a slow and unacknowledged death? And that the only way back to life was to set all our packages down and begin again, carrying with us only what we really needed? -Barbara Cawthorne Crafton………………………