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

Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.

I can't be paralyzed anymore by the critics. My new mantra is, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, then I'm not interested in your feedback. You don't get to sit in the cheat seat and criticize my appearance or my work with mean-spiritedness if you're also not in the arena.

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.