Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

Effort + the courage to show up = enough.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

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.

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