Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

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.

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

Effort + the courage to show up = enough.