When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

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