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.

There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

If you're not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.