Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. When we don't have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

We have to be women we want our daughters to be.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.