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

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.