Vulnerability is not weakness.

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

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

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

I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there.

At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.