Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes."

Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy and gratitude into our lives.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.