When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.