I have decided to dedicate a post on Thursday to therapy, and offer you the many tips I have learned on the couch. They will be a good reminder for me, as well, of something small I can concentrate on. Many of them are published in my book, “The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit.“

Oprah Winfrey explained in her commencement address to Wellesley College that it wasn’t until she got demoted as an on-air anchor woman and thrown into the talk-show world that she discovered her true calling.

“The first day I was on the air doing my first talk show back in l978, it felt like breathing, which is what your true passion should feel like. It should be so natural to you.”

It felt like breathing.

I love that. Because writing my blog, Beyond Blue, does feel like breathing … on many days.
I dig for the raw guts and I pretend there are no such things as embarrassment and mistakes–that there’s been a recall on all forms of perfectionism–and that each and every reader will appreciate what I have to say, so that no hate mail will have to be read.

I simply take a deep breath and let myself escape unto the page.

Think about a world where everyone followed Oprah’s lead and turned their “failures” into opportunities to find their true calling and passion–just so long as it didn’t involve public humiliation, of course.

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