"There's a lovely expression, 'comedy is tragedy plus time'. So we do have to face the tragic, what we feel are the tragic aspects of our life, whatever that is. It might be, I've wasted my life not doing what I thought I wanted to do, or I'm not as well off as I wanted to be, whatever it is that brings up a sense of shame in us and really sit with that.... [and] ...become friends with our most uncomfortable emotions." Janet

"I love it when you can substantiate this with the science because I think that it opens up a whole new raft of people to be open to this idea. Because in the same way we can become very addicted to feeling bad and stress, we can also become addicted to feeling good. And if we can see that without taking a substance, it's very empowering." Janet

"I had to go look up what you mentioned, Janet, about the 90 Seconds. I haven't heard that before. So check this out, this particular blurb about that idea: 'The 90 Second Rule suggests that the biochemical or physiological component of an emotional experience lasts about 90 seconds'. Here's the part I thought was interesting, that I want to bring to your attention: 'What often persists much longer is the story we tell ourselves about the emotion, the mental rumination, which keeps that feeling alive in our minds.'" John

"When you think about it, women have historically not been very powerful. We've had to resort to manipulation and making ourselves as beautiful as possible is one way of manipulating it and then out competing our fellow women. It's a horrible place to be. And so I'm doing a practice now on my social media on Facebook of pulling ugly faces." Janet

"I've got to the summit of my mountain, but the view from here really sucks." Janet