If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.

Hope is a function of struggle.

All the stuff that keeps you safe from feeling scary emotions? They also keep you from feeling the good emotions. You have to shake those off. You have to become vulnerable.

What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

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