In Gilead, she wrote: "Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life. All it needs from you is that you take care not to trample on it."
Monday, November 26, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Telephone Connections Poem
The Telephone
My happiness depends on an electric appliance
And I do not mind giving it so much credit
With life in this city being what it is
Each person separated from friends
By a tangle of subways and buses
Yes my telephone is my joy
It tells me that I am in the world and wanted
It rings and I am alerted to love or gossip
I go comb my hair which begins to sparkle
Without it I was like a bear in a cave
Drowsing through a shadowy winter
It rings and spring has come
I stretch and amble out into the sunshine
Hungry again as I pick up the receiver
For the human voice and the good news of friends
And I do not mind giving it so much credit
With life in this city being what it is
Each person separated from friends
By a tangle of subways and buses
Yes my telephone is my joy
It tells me that I am in the world and wanted
It rings and I am alerted to love or gossip
I go comb my hair which begins to sparkle
Without it I was like a bear in a cave
Drowsing through a shadowy winter
It rings and spring has come
I stretch and amble out into the sunshine
Hungry again as I pick up the receiver
For the human voice and the good news of friends
Friday, November 23, 2012
Neat Poem
God's Letters
When God thought up the world,
the alphabet letters
whistled in his crown,
where they were engraved
with a pen of fire,
each wanting to begin
the story of Creation.
S said, I am Soul.
I can Shine out
from within your creatures.
God replied, I know that,
but you are Sin, too.
L said, I am Love,
and I brush away malice.
God rejoined, Yes,
but you are Lie,
and falsehood is not
what I had in mind.
P said, I am Praise,
and where there's a celebration,
I Perform
in my Purple coat.
Yes, roared God,
but at the same time,
you are Pessimism—
the other side of Praise.
And so forth.
All the letters
had two sides or more.
None was pure.
There was a clamor
in paradise, words,
syllables, shouting
to be seen and heard
for the glory
of the new heavens and earth.
God fell silent,
wondering,
How can song
rise from that commotion?
Rather than speculate,
God chose B,
who had intoned,
Bashfully, Boldly,
Blessed is his name.
And he made A
first in the Alphabet
for admitting, I am All—
a limitation
and a possibility.
the alphabet letters
whistled in his crown,
where they were engraved
with a pen of fire,
each wanting to begin
the story of Creation.
S said, I am Soul.
I can Shine out
from within your creatures.
God replied, I know that,
but you are Sin, too.
L said, I am Love,
and I brush away malice.
God rejoined, Yes,
but you are Lie,
and falsehood is not
what I had in mind.
P said, I am Praise,
and where there's a celebration,
I Perform
in my Purple coat.
Yes, roared God,
but at the same time,
you are Pessimism—
the other side of Praise.
And so forth.
All the letters
had two sides or more.
None was pure.
There was a clamor
in paradise, words,
syllables, shouting
to be seen and heard
for the glory
of the new heavens and earth.
God fell silent,
wondering,
How can song
rise from that commotion?
Rather than speculate,
God chose B,
who had intoned,
Bashfully, Boldly,
Blessed is his name.
And he made A
first in the Alphabet
for admitting, I am All—
a limitation
and a possibility.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Good Advice
Advice to Myself
Leave the dishes. Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator
and an earthen scum harden on the kitchen floor.
Leave the black crumbs in the bottom of the toaster.
Throw the cracked bowl out and don't patch the cup.
Don't patch anything. Don't mend. Buy safety pins.
Don't even sew on a button.
Let the wind have its way, then the earth
that invades as dust and then the dead
foaming up in gray rolls underneath the couch.
Talk to them. Tell them they are welcome.
Don't keep all the pieces of the puzzles
or the doll's tiny shoes in pairs, don't worry
who uses whose toothbrush or if anything
matches, at all.
Except one word to another. Or a thought.
Pursue the authentic—decide first
what is authentic,
then go after it with all your heart.
Your heart, that place
you don't even think of cleaning out.
That closet stuffed with savage mementos.
Don't sort the paper clips from screws from saved baby teeth
or worry if we're all eating cereal for dinner
again. Don't answer the telephone, ever,
or weep over anything at all that breaks.
Pink molds will grow within those sealed cartons
in the refrigerator. Accept new forms of life
and talk to the dead
who drift in through the screened windows, who collect
patiently on the tops of food jars and books.
Recycle the mail, don't read it, don't read anything
except what destroys
the insulation between yourself and your experience
or what pulls down or what strikes at or what shatters
this ruse you call necessity.
and an earthen scum harden on the kitchen floor.
Leave the black crumbs in the bottom of the toaster.
Throw the cracked bowl out and don't patch the cup.
Don't patch anything. Don't mend. Buy safety pins.
Don't even sew on a button.
Let the wind have its way, then the earth
that invades as dust and then the dead
foaming up in gray rolls underneath the couch.
Talk to them. Tell them they are welcome.
Don't keep all the pieces of the puzzles
or the doll's tiny shoes in pairs, don't worry
who uses whose toothbrush or if anything
matches, at all.
Except one word to another. Or a thought.
Pursue the authentic—decide first
what is authentic,
then go after it with all your heart.
Your heart, that place
you don't even think of cleaning out.
That closet stuffed with savage mementos.
Don't sort the paper clips from screws from saved baby teeth
or worry if we're all eating cereal for dinner
again. Don't answer the telephone, ever,
or weep over anything at all that breaks.
Pink molds will grow within those sealed cartons
in the refrigerator. Accept new forms of life
and talk to the dead
who drift in through the screened windows, who collect
patiently on the tops of food jars and books.
Recycle the mail, don't read it, don't read anything
except what destroys
the insulation between yourself and your experience
or what pulls down or what strikes at or what shatters
this ruse you call necessity.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Life Can Be Beautiful
Post written by Leo Babauta.
This morning I awoke, meditated in the quiet dark empty room, and then went to make my coffee.The world outside is wet, and the raindrops patter upon the leaves of the lemon tree, with its bursts of bright yellow.
My kids and Eva asleep, at peace.
And as I drink my coffee I think of you, dear reader.
And I am struck by the beauty of this world, and the fragile human lives struggling to make their way within it.And shaken.
The pain and stress and anger and sadness and loneliness and frustration and fear and cravings and irritations that we will experience today … they are made up. We can let them go as easily as they arise. They are unnecessary, if we realize that we’ve created them for no good reason.
Instead, see the beauty in every moment. In every person’s so human actions. In our own frailties and failures.
This world is a morning poem, and we have but to see it to be shaken by its beauty, over and over.
Monday, November 5, 2012
HSP and Creativity
Being Highly Sensitive and Creative
By Douglas EbyAre creative people unusually sensitive? Clinical and research reports confirm that is often true – as well as comments by many creative people about their own experience.
For example, creativity coach Lisa A. Riley, LMFT notes:Throughout my practice, I have encountered a connection between highly sensitive people and their own creative impulses.From her guest post: Highly Sensitive Personality and Creativity – which includes a link to her site with resources for creative people: The Art of Mind.
This characteristic does not discriminate between painter, actor, or musician—they all appear to have one thing in common: they experience the world differently than the average individual.
Creatives often feel and perceive more intensely, dramatically, and with a wildly vivid color palate to draw from, which can only be described as looking at the world through a much larger lens.
Of course, being creative is not limited to people identified as artists, or just those who are pursuing creative ventures.
Both creativity and being sensitive are on a spectrum – a range of different levels. And simply being sensitive does not mean you are necessarily creative or an artist.
Oh please be careful with meI’m sensitive
And I’d like to stay that way
From the song “I’m Sensitive” by Jewel Kilcher -
from her debut album Pieces of You.
Writer Pearl Buck made a very strong declaration about sensitivity:
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive.
“To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
“Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off… They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating.”
Her novel The Good Earth won a Pulitzer Prize, and in 1938 she won the Nobel Prize in literature.
Pearl Buck’s statement, even if today it sounds overblown, is something you may relate to if you experience high sensitivity, and a compelling need to create.
Psychologist Elaine Aron, PhD is probably the leading expert on high sensitivity, or more technically, sensory processing sensitivity.
Her research has found it is an innate personality trait present in 15 to 20 percent of us. It is not the same as introversion or shyness, though there are interactions and overlaps, as I note in my post Shyness, Introversion, Sensitivity – What’s the Difference?
Dr. Aron explains: “Highly sensitive individuals are those born with a tendency to notice more in their environment and deeply reflect on everything before acting, as compared to those who notice less and act quickly and impulsively. As a result, sensitive people, both children and adults, tend to be empathic, smart, intuitive, creative, careful, and conscientious…”
From her book The Highly Sensitive Child. Her newer book is The Undervalued Self.
Back to Pearl Buck’s famous quote above: “The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive” etc.
While I appreciate her perspectives, there are parts I don’t agree with: What does “truly creative” even mean, and is she implying that only those who are highly sensitive qualify as “true” creators?
Also, she says “inhumanly sensitive” as though it were some extreme condition – but research by psychologist Elaine Aron, PhD and others indicates the trait occurs with 15 – 20 % of people.
In an edition of her newsletter Comfort Zone, Dr. Aron writes that Buck “was saying all creative people are highly sensitive. I don’t know about that, but I know ALL HSPs are creative, by definition.
“Many have squashed their creativity because of their low self-esteem; many more had it squashed for them, before they could ever know about. But we all have it…One of the best ways to make life meaningful for an HSP is to use that creativity.”
See more in my Creative Mind post Elaine Aron on Creativity and Sensitivity.
Also, much as I appreciate Jewel’s lyrics: “I want to stay that way” – saying “Please be careful with me” can imply the criticism people have about highly sensitive people, saying things like “Lighten up” or simply “You’re too sensitive.”
As a sensitive person, it isn’t up to others – it’s up to you to learn your needs and limits, and take care of not getting overwhelmed, so you can really embrace your sensitive trait and use it creatively.
More on sensitivity and creative ability
This connection continues to be confirmed by many people’s personal experience.
“I’m a very sensitive person. I hurt real easy and real deep, which is why I think I have to write songs, [and] why so many of them fit the feelings of so many people that can’t write. It’s because I feel everything to my core.” Dolly Parton [checkout.com]
“She has the same kind of passion and excess [as Joan] and, you know, she can laugh and she can cry two seconds afterwards. She can cry for an ant on the street. She has, like, no skin. She feels everything. Even the wind can make her cry.” – Director Luc Besson – about Milla Jovovich in their film ”The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc” [LA Times, 11.11.99]“I get emotional all the time,” says Jennifer Beals. “I get emotional every time I make a speech, or talk about other cast members,” she says. “Every now and again, my heart just explodes and expands.”
Laurel Holloman, her castmate on “The L Word”, has seen this firsthand. “If Jennifer is passionate about something, it comes to the surface within seconds,” she says. “My theory on that is all the best actors have a couple of layers of skin peeled away. There’s a huge emotional life in Jennifer, and it’s kind of beautiful.” [From article The Real Beals - by Jancee Dunn, Lifetime, August 2004]
According to various research studies, creative people are more open to stimuli from environment – another aspect of being highly sensitive. Here is a summary of one research study.
Decreased Latent Inhibition Is Associated With Increased Creative Achievement in High-Functioning Individuals
The study in the September [2003] issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology says the brains of creative people appear to be more open to incoming stimuli from the surrounding environment. Other people’s brains might shut out this same information through a process called “latent inhibition” – defined as an animal’s unconscious capacity to ignore stimuli that experience has shown are irrelevant to its needs.
Through psychological testing, the researchers showed that creative individuals are much more likely to have low levels of latent inhibition.
“This means that creative individuals remain in contact with the extra information constantly streaming in from the environment,” says co-author and University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson.
Co-researcher and psychology lecturer Shelley Carson of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences said “Scientists have wondered for a long time why madness and creativity seem linked. ”It appears likely that low levels of latent inhibition and exceptional flexibility in thought might predispose to mental illness under some conditions and to creative accomplishment under others.”
Of course, the statement “might predispose to mental illness” does not mean we are more likely to be “crazy” if we are sensitive. But sensitivity can be emotionally challenging, stressful, and possibly an issue in our mental health.
What is sensitivity?
Highly Sensitive People – HSPs – have an uncommonly sensitive nervous system – a normal occurrence, according to Dr. Elaine Aron and other researchers. She notes:
“About 15 to 20 percent of the population have this trait.
“It means you are aware of subtleties in your surroundings, a great advantage in many situations.
“It also means you are more easily overwhelmed when you have been out in a highly stimulating environment for too long, bombarded by sights and sounds until you are exhausted.”
An HSP herself, Aron reassures other Highly Sensitive People that they are quite normal, and that their trait is not a flaw or a syndrome, nor is it a reason to brag. It is an asset they can learn to use and protect.Quotes are from summary of book The Highly Sensitive Person on her site The Highly Sensitive Person.
Books by Elaine Aron include:
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook
The Highly Sensitive Person in Love
The Highly Sensitive Child
Dr. Aron’s excellent site includes a wide range of information, and a self-test.
She writes on the site about HSPs – highly sensitive people :
“This trait is not something new I discovered — it has been mislabeled as shyness (not an inherited trait), introversion (30% of HSPs are actually extraverts), inhibitedness, fearfulness, and the like.
“HSPs can be these, but none of these are the fundamental trait they have inherited. The reason for these negative misnomers and general lack of research on the subject is that in this culture being tough and outgoing is the preferred or ideal personality — not high sensitivity.
“This cultural bias affects HSPs as much as their trait affects them, as I am sure you realize. Even those who loved you probably told you, ‘don’t be so sensitive,’ making you feel abnormal when in fact you could do nothing about it and it is not abnormal at all.”
This common reaction from other people – “Don’t be so sensitive” – is something a lot of us have experienced in life at different ages, and it probably has had an enduring impact on how we accept ourselves and think about being sensitive.
Especially as a creative person, you need to follow your own path, your own mind and heart, and be authentic – not conform to other’s ideas of acceptable personality traits.
Introversion and shyness, as Aron notes, may not inherently be part of the trait of sensitivity, but in my personal experience, and reading of many quotes by sensitive people, introversion and other qualities such as emotional intensity often accompany being sensitive.
Here are some more quotes by artists:
Actor / musician Mandy Moore: “I’m extremely-extremely sensitive. I can cry at the drop of a hat. I’m such a girl when it comes to that. Anything upsets me. I cry all the time. I cry when I’m happy too.” absolutely.net
Heath Ledger cried all night after being attacked with water pistols by paparazzi at the Sydney premiere of Brokeback Mountain – and later sold his $4.45 million beachside home in Australia to relocate to Brooklyn with partner Michelle Williams and baby Matilda. [Daily Telegraph, 2006]Winona Ryder: “There have been some traumatic experiences in my life that have resulted in my feeling that maybe I was going insane for a little while… How do you ever explain the feelings of anxiety and paralysing fear? I can’t answer those questions. It’s just a feeling of ‘Am I crazy? Am I too sensitive to be in this world?’
“A feeling that the world is just too complicated for me right now, and I don’t feel like I belong here. But it passes, and fortunately today I feel blessed for all the good things in my life.” [cinema.com]
Winona Ryder’s comment bring up the issue of anxiety.
In her newsletter article “Tips for HSPs’ Less Sensitive Friends and Lovers” Elaine Aron writes:
“HSPs are more affected by having troubled childhoods — such a past can, for example, make them anxious, depressed, insecure, or shy as adults.
“This has nothing to do with the trait itself — HSPs with good-enough childhoods do not have these troubles. Nor are the problems unchangeable. They can be vastly improved by your attitude and by your HSP’s inner work, especially in skilled psychotherapy (sometimes along with medications).
“The work is slow and often difficult, as is almost anything worthwhile. HSPs often like this inner work–they are well designed for it…”
Anxiety has often been part of my life, so perhaps I am more aware of it and concerned about its impacts, but I think it is often connected with sensitivity, especially for creative people who are generally more willing than others to access their emotions.
If it is part of your life, it is worth the effort to deal with it, because anxiety can keep you from more fully expressing your creative talents.
My Talent Development Resources series of sites has a number of articles on anxiety, plus a site: Anxiety Relief Solutions.
Excitabilities
High sensitivity may be related to a number of “excitabilities” described in research on gifted children and adults, particularly by psychologist/psychiatrist Kazimierz Dabrowski.
These personal “channels of information flow” and modes of experiencing can impact how gifted and creative individuals reach higher levels of development.
But even for non-gifted people, these “excitabilities” may be relevant.
Taking care of your sensitive self
Sensitive Living Coach Jenna Avery writes about self-care and embracing our sensitivity to thrive in her article Are You Highly Sensitive?“Learning to thrive as a Highly Sensitive Soul presents challenges. If you’re sensitive, you have likely accumulated years of training in trying overcome the trait because you don’t “fit in” with society.
“And yet being Highly Sensitive is a vital part of you. A first step toward thriving as a Sensitive Soul is to understand and accept your trait.
“Hear this now: There is absolutely nothing wrong with you. You are just different. As one of my clients says, being Highly Sensitive is both a gift and a responsibility.
“Sensitive Souls require regular self-care, meaningful work, and supportive relationships. Working with a sensitive coach or therapist who helps you tune into your own magnificent inner guidance system — your sensitivity — is a powerful means of support.”
See her site for other posts, and for her online classes and other resources: jennaavery.com.
Another coach who specializes in helping HSPs is Ane Axford, MS, LMFT, a marriage and family therapist.
She writes, “Understanding high sensitivity helps to understand that there is nothing wrong with you or HSPs in your life. This allows you to start focusing on living in a way that fits instead of trying to make your self fit.
“I find that once sensitive people are able to move through their struggles, they can then thrive, and be Sensitive Leaders. It’s definitely time to get out of struggling with sensitivity and survival, into thriving and leading powerfully with sensitivity.”
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Courage and Creativity
Courage and creativity
by Douglas Eby
"You learn courage by couraging."
In a review of the book The Courage to Create by Rollo May, psychologist Stephen Diamond comments, "Creativity always requires taking a chance on one's self... and moving ahead despite self-doubts, discouragement and anxiety.
"Courage, as May makes clear, is not the absence of insecurity, fear, anxiety or despair, but resides in the decision to move through these feelings as constructively or creatively as possible."
Writer Anais Nin declared, "It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before, to test your limits, to break through barriers."
Sandra Ford Walston is a courage coach, keynote speaker and corporate trainer, and author of a book on courage, written especially for women.
In an article about her, Jill Lawrence wrote: "Walston says the two things in her life that required ultimate courage were the giving up of her son for adoption and embarking on a writing career.
"She had a lot of fear around being a writer. She preferred to express herself through her public speaking. Yet, her courage enabled her to face that fear and get on with a writing career."
Lawrence writes that Walston refers in the book to the 1939 classic film "The Wizard of Oz," with the lion who was "so desperately searching for courage... Of course, the Lion in question actually had a tremendous reservoir of courage but was unable to see that truth about himself. 'That's often the case, especially for women,' [Walston] explains."
Part of the reason it may be difficult for some women to acknowledge or make use of their courage is that patriarchal societies associate strength and courage with physical power, and with men but not women.
Another article posted on Walston's website says, "But in earlier times, courage meant mental or moral strength to venture, to persevere, and to withstand danger, fear, or difficulty," Walston explains.
"If this broader definition of courage prevailed, women would be viewed much differently today... If every woman identified the acts she performs every day as courageous, she would be able to use that same courage to transform her life and accomplish her heart's desire."
Walston and other writers point out it is a strength that can be developed.
Philosopher Mary Daly has commented, "I think you guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move. And with courage. And courage is like -- it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging."
Writer and script consultant Linda Seger said in an interview of ours, "You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to the next scary area and make it comfortable. If we want to be in a little cocoon, well, that's where we're going to be.
"But the nature of moving out of your little cocoon into another area is that it is scary, and it's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage."
Jill Lawrence said Walston "demonstrated courage in her personal life as well" when she was dumped by her fianc*. "I had no friends, no family and only knew the area in a mile-and-a-half radius around where I was living [said Walston]. I didn't know what I was going to do. One thing I did know how to do was to make lemonade out of water."
"It was from this experience," writes Lawrence, "that a defining moment arose and a crystallization of an insight surfaced to her: she was to write a book about women and courage. 'I had to reinvent myself one more time and draw upon my ever-growing reservoir of courage! During that sad and lonely period, a voice told me that if I could weather the melancholy and loneliness, a revelation would come to me,' Walston exults."
Actress Gillian Anderson wrote in the foreword to the book Girl Boss by Stacy Kravetz, "I believe from the bottom of my heart that there is nothing we as human beings, and especially we as women cannot tackle.
"It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway."
by Douglas Eby
"You learn courage by couraging."
In a review of the book The Courage to Create by Rollo May, psychologist Stephen Diamond comments, "Creativity always requires taking a chance on one's self... and moving ahead despite self-doubts, discouragement and anxiety.
"Courage, as May makes clear, is not the absence of insecurity, fear, anxiety or despair, but resides in the decision to move through these feelings as constructively or creatively as possible."
Writer Anais Nin declared, "It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before, to test your limits, to break through barriers."
Sandra Ford Walston is a courage coach, keynote speaker and corporate trainer, and author of a book on courage, written especially for women.
In an article about her, Jill Lawrence wrote: "Walston says the two things in her life that required ultimate courage were the giving up of her son for adoption and embarking on a writing career.
"She had a lot of fear around being a writer. She preferred to express herself through her public speaking. Yet, her courage enabled her to face that fear and get on with a writing career."
Lawrence writes that Walston refers in the book to the 1939 classic film "The Wizard of Oz," with the lion who was "so desperately searching for courage... Of course, the Lion in question actually had a tremendous reservoir of courage but was unable to see that truth about himself. 'That's often the case, especially for women,' [Walston] explains."
Part of the reason it may be difficult for some women to acknowledge or make use of their courage is that patriarchal societies associate strength and courage with physical power, and with men but not women.
Another article posted on Walston's website says, "But in earlier times, courage meant mental or moral strength to venture, to persevere, and to withstand danger, fear, or difficulty," Walston explains.
"If this broader definition of courage prevailed, women would be viewed much differently today... If every woman identified the acts she performs every day as courageous, she would be able to use that same courage to transform her life and accomplish her heart's desire."
Walston and other writers point out it is a strength that can be developed.
Philosopher Mary Daly has commented, "I think you guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move. And with courage. And courage is like -- it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging."
Writer and script consultant Linda Seger said in an interview of ours, "You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to the next scary area and make it comfortable. If we want to be in a little cocoon, well, that's where we're going to be.
"But the nature of moving out of your little cocoon into another area is that it is scary, and it's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage."
Jill Lawrence said Walston "demonstrated courage in her personal life as well" when she was dumped by her fianc*. "I had no friends, no family and only knew the area in a mile-and-a-half radius around where I was living [said Walston]. I didn't know what I was going to do. One thing I did know how to do was to make lemonade out of water."
"It was from this experience," writes Lawrence, "that a defining moment arose and a crystallization of an insight surfaced to her: she was to write a book about women and courage. 'I had to reinvent myself one more time and draw upon my ever-growing reservoir of courage! During that sad and lonely period, a voice told me that if I could weather the melancholy and loneliness, a revelation would come to me,' Walston exults."
Actress Gillian Anderson wrote in the foreword to the book Girl Boss by Stacy Kravetz, "I believe from the bottom of my heart that there is nothing we as human beings, and especially we as women cannot tackle.
"It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway."
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