There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.

Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.

Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and to know they're not alone. It's the combination of the researcher-storyteller part.