But there’s no equation where taking risks, braving uncertainty, and opening ourselves up to emotional exposure equals weakness.
But as poet Mizuta Masahide wrote, Barn’s burnt down / now / I can see the moon.
Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness -- an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a plac...
Being ourselves means sometimes having to find the courage to stand alone, totally alone.
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.
Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?
A study published in the October 22, 2014, issue of the journal Neuron suggests that the brain’s chemistry changes when we become curious, helping us better learn and retain information. But curiosity...
Who we are' is at least as important as 'what we want to achieve.
The women and men I interviewed who had the strongest sense of true belonging stayed zoomed in. They didn’t ignore what was happening in the world, nor did they stop advocating for their beliefs. They...
That imposter or phony feeling at work or school rarely has anything to do with our abilities, but has more to do with that fearful voice inside of us that scolds and asks, Who do you think you are?
Hope is a combination of setting goals, having the tenacity and perseverance to pursue them, and believing in our own abilities.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. —Maya Angelou
You can't numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions. You cannot selectively numb. So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. And then we a...
Writer Mary Jo Putney says, What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets don...
When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life.
What almost no one understands is how every level of severity in this diagnosis is underpinned by shame. Which means we don’t fix it by cutting people down to size and reminding folks of their inadequ...
We’re sick of being afraid and we’re tired of hustling for our self-worth. We want to be brave, and deep inside we know that being brave requires us to be vulnerable.
We don't have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.
UnMarketing: Don’t try to win over the haters; you’re not the jackass whisperer.