We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

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.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.