We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.
Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.
There are infinite numbers of do overs for your teen girls.
We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.
You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.
Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language -- it's from the Latin word "cor," meaning "heart" - and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.