If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.

One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes."

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.