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.

If we own the story then we can write the ending.

It’s no longer a question of can I do it. It’s a question of: Do I want to do it?

Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.