Lisa Marie Basile

The sum of a city isn’t always made up of its parts.

If you’re an empath, you probably easily absorb the emotions of others and need time alone to decompress. If you're like me you're one exhausted empath!

Remember that your body is you, it is not separate. Treat it, yourself, with love. You’re a body of magic.

My happiness is what undid me, ironically. I worried so much about being OK with the happiness that I fell apart.

Is there a certain quality to letter writing or diary keeping that inspires the confessional? I believe so.

Like a lot of people with chronic illness or autoimmune/autoinflammatory disorders, I went through a dead-end labyrinth to get my diagnosis.

In this column, I talk about things other people think or say, but not out loud, and certainly not in public. No one wants to say, “People either love me or hate me” because it sounds ridiculous and arrogant and icky.

The older we get, the harder it is to make close friends.

How much energy does it take to be jealous? Hint: Way too much.