When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.