Talk about your failures without apologizing.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.