Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

If you're not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.

Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, to be this vulnerable means that we’re alive.

Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.