I wish I could put someone in my place for an hour . . . and let them see the emotions I deal with. It's just like reliving everything all over again.

I'm living with the loss. I'm living with the horror, with all the thoughts and everything and I still can't believe what's going on.

The holidays evoke strong emotions, and . . . it's all about the senses. You touch gift wrap, smell the candles and cookies, hear the sounds of bells.

Either we control our thoughts and emotions, or our thoughts and emotions will take hold of us.

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.

One of our duties on this planet is to dissolve the negative emotions associated with negative memories while we motivate ourselves and other people.