Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and to know they're not alone. It's the combination of the researcher-storyteller part.

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.

Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.

What makes something better is connection.

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

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.