It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (ed. Shambhala Publications, 2016) - ISBN: 9780834821132