Laura McKowen

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling the who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at
the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.”
― Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

“The process has been the gift.”
― Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

“The place where we pretend, in big ways and in small, that we are something or someone we know in our bones we are not. We can go a long time pretending and thinking we’re doing it right this way, building big, complicated lives on a false foundation. No matter how big and impressive a life you build there, on that island, the crumbling of that life is inevitable.”
― Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

“My drinking — and whatever it is you do to feel better — was born of a natural impulse to soothe, to connect, to feel love. And although alcohol hadn’t actually delivered those things, it was absolutely yoked to them in my mind. In my heart and body, too. It was just what I knew.”
― Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life