'I would find myself getting angry at people who came up and didn't acknowledge that I existed when I was standing next to Arnold' (via toofab)
"I first felt like, 'Oh I'd better go and figure out like, what is the truth?'" Shriver, 67, began."I went to a convent -- I did so many things -- but one of the things I did is I went to a convent, a cloistered convent, to be in silence and look for advice."
"The Reverend Mother there said to me at the very end, she said -- and I actually have written about this, but I haven't shared -- she said, 'I think you came here looking for permission,'" Shriver continued, adding that it she"felt like I was in a scene out of 'The Sound of Music.'" "She goes, 'You can't come live here ... but you do have permission to go out and become Maria,'" the author said."I was, like, sobbing. I was like, 'Who is that?'"
Shriver went on to share that for the first time, she finally gave herself"permission to start learning." "I had never given myself permission to feel, to be vulnerable, to be weak, to be brought to my knees. And the world did it to me," she told Kotb."And then I was like, 'OK, God, let's go. And I'm going to take this and learn everything I can about my role and what I need to learn ... When the universe knocks you like that, I think you have to not focus on the other person [but] ...
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