13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success

I wrote myself that letter... It turned into something amazing. And I got a book deal and the opportunity to do lots of things that I probably wouldn't have been able to do or ever thought I could do.

One of the people that read the article was a literary agent who said, you should write a book.

My books are in 40something languages now.

I read your book and it really helped me... I felt a lot less alone and finally felt like I had tools.

She wrote a debut book of the same title, which was a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller.

author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do

I was a therapist and thought I'll go out and I'll teach other people all of these life lessons but my mom passed away when I was 23...

And then when I did it certainly never imagined that all these people would be reading it and we'd still be talking about it a decade later

the three-year anniversary to the day that my mom died that my 26-year-old husband died and he had a heart attack obviously when you're 26 you're not supposed to have a heart attack...

it was just a letter to myself that I hadn't imagined putting on the internet and then when I did it certainly never imagined that all these people would be reading it...

when I was done it happened to have 13 things on the list everybody always thinks that there was like a magic in the number or that I picked 13 for a specific reason no that was just what I'd learned as a therapist and through my own journey...