Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging.
Worthy now. Not if. Not when. We are worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.
When we’re anxious, disconnected, vulnerable, alone, and feeling helpless, the booze and food and work and endless hours online feel like comfort, but in reality they’re only casting their long shadow...
What starts as a small disagreement about an unimportant issue becomes a fight over wrongly assigned intentions and hurt feelings.
We don't have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.
There are times we will miss the opportunity to be empathic. Mental health professionals often call these empathic failures. There are also times when the people around us will not be able to give us...
Show up for people in pain and don’t look away.
Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from taking flight.
No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the...
Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives.
Here’s how I see the progression of my work: The Gifts of Imperfection—Be you. Daring Greatly—Be all in. Rising Strong—Fall. Get up. Try again.
Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It’s also chicken-shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously—like technology allows so many people to do these days.
Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.
Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty.
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
You either walk into your story and own your truth, or you live outside of your story, hustling for your worthiness.
Theodore Roosevelt’s powerful quote from his 1910 Man in the Arena speech: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could hav...
Requiring accountability while also extending your compassion is not the easiest course of action, but it is the most humane, and, ultimately, the safest for the community.
Quoting Viola Davis (who is sharing rules she lives by): '4. I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplish...
Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly r...