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

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

If we own the story then we can write the ending.

Hope is a function of struggle.

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.