If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)
The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.
I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.
You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.