The Power of Meeting Your Edge and Softening

Frida Ghitis: I remember spending a week in a cardiac unit at a hospital and spinning into this huge fear, obsessing about what was wrong. She says the phrase that really helped her is to meet my edge and soften. Ghitis: We manage our lives so powerfully externally as to forget the incredible mystery we're involved in. "We can only enter the wilderness of allowing if we want to be here," she says.