Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

by Lori Gottlieb

in later years, we experience a sense of integrity if we believe we have lived meaningful lives. This sense of integrity gives us a feeling of completeness so that we can better accept our approaching deaths. But if we have unresolved regrets about the past—if we think that we made poor choices or failed to accomplish important goals—we feel depressed and hopeless, which leads us to despair.

It’s why I’m soaking in my mother and looking at her with a generosity I have for so long been unable to access.

This quote had me bawling both as a daughter, remembering this before my mother passed away, and as a mother—wishing for my children to reach this stage.