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

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

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.

Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones.