If you're not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

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

Connection, the ability to feel connected, is neurobiologically wired, that’s why we’re here!