Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.