If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

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.

Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves--a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that's God, for others it's nature, art, or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.