I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.
I believe Black Lives Matter is a movement to rehumanize black citizens. All lives matter, but not all lives need to be pulled back into moral inclusion. Not all people were subjected to the psycholog...
I always felt that someone, a long time ago, organized the affairs of the world into areas that made sense-catagories of stuff that is perfectible, things that fit neatly in perfect bundles. The world...
Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.
Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Do not think you can be brave with your life and your work and never disappoint anyone. It doesn’t work that way.
Daring leaders work to make sure people can be themselves and feel a sense of belonging.
Daring is not saying, I’m willing to risk failure. Daring is saying, I know I will eventually fail and I’m still all in.
Daring greatly is not about winning or losing. It’s about courage.
Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty 6. Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparison 7. Cultivating play and rest: letting go of exhaustion as a status sy...
Connection is why we’re here. We are hardwired to connect with others, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.
Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs. —Joan Didion
As Kelly Rae so beautifully demonstrated, boundaries are simply our lists of what’s okay and what’s not okay. In fact, this is the working definition I use for boundaries today. It’s so straightforwar...
Anne Lamott, whom I once heard say, Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness. Amen!
And if our faith asks us to find the face of God in everyone we meet, that should include the politicians, media, and strangers on Twitter with whom we most violently disagree. When we desecrate their...
Again, there’s no question that feedback may be one of the most difficult arenas to negotiate in our lives. We should remember, though, that victory is not getting good feedback, avoiding giving diffi...
Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.
According to Bishop, the author of The Big Sort, in 1976 less than 25% of Americans lived in places where the presidential election was a landslide. In other words, we lived next door to and attended...
A wild heart is not something you can always see -- and yet it is our greatest spiritual possession.