I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Vulnerability is not weakness.