The Most Successful Families Embrace

If You Tell Your Own Story To Your Children - That Includes Your Positive Moments And Your Negative Moments, And How You Overcame Them - You Give Your Children The Skills And The Confidence They Need To Feel Like They Can Overcome Some Hardship That They've Felt.

Knowing More About Family History Is The Single Biggest Predictor Of A Child's Emotional Well-being. Grandparents Can Play A Special Role In This Process, Too.

When You Hit The Unimaginable, The Only Answer Is Imaginativeness. You Have To Heal With The Person That You're Suffering With. You Have To Write A New Chapter In Your Story. A Relationship Can Be A Sacred Thing, But It's Going To Be Difficult. There Are Going To Be Challenges. You Are Going To Have Pain. But Working It Through And Being Resilient Is As Sacred And Meaningful As Having A "hollywood" Romance.

You Don't Need A Grand Plan, You Don't Need To Go Back To The Ancestors And Rewrite The Rules. You Just Need To Take Small Steps And Accumulate Small Wins.

Cancer Is A Passport To Intimacy. It Is An Invitation, Maybe Even A Mandate, To Enter The Most Vital Arenas Of Human Life, The Most Sensitive And The Most Frightening, The Ones That We Never Want To Go To - But When We Do Go There, We Feel Incredibly Transformed.