It's a practice for me every day, sometimes every hour of every day. It is an absolute practice. When I went into the research, I really thought that there are authentic people and inauthentic people, period. What I found is, there people who practice authenticity and people who don't. The people who practice authenticity work their ass off at it.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

Effort + the courage to show up = enough.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.