When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.