Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

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

Tell your story with your whole heart.

Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.