When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.

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.

Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, to be this vulnerable means that we’re alive.

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.