Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

On the flip side, I've also had to struggle with saying "yes." Before I did this research and before I had my own breakdown and spiritual awakening around this work, my motto was, "Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing." Which I think is the way the majority of adults in our culture live. Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"