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

I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there.

The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

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."

We cannot give our children what we don’t have.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.