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

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.