Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

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.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

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.

Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.