When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Collaboration is about “team work.” It’s not a cliché, it’s a practical reality.

If Possible, Make Peace. If Not, Put A Full Stop.

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering.

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.

When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.