Now there’s at least two ways I can look at all of this. I can say look at everything I’ve had to go through. Or I can stand back and say wow. Look at everything I got to experience, feel, and see. And as much as I’ve resisted and struggled each step of the way, maybe that’s why I am here: to go through all of this and see from my point of view exactly how all these things feel.
— Melody Beattie, Playing It By Heart, p. 247