If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward.

In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.

The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.

hat whole phrase, "daring greatly," is from the Theodore Roosevelt quote that goes back to your original question of, what about the critics? And when I read his quote it was life-changing. "It's not the critic who counts; it's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done the better.

We cannot give our children what we don’t have.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.