Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

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.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

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

If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.