Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

Reviving Ophelia: Helping You to Understand and Cope With Your Teenage Daughter (ed. Random House, 2010) - ISBN: 9781446407011