Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

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

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.