If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.
Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.
We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.
What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.
The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.
Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.