Dependence starts when we’re born and lasts until we die.

in the middle of our lives, we mistakenly fall prey to the myth that successful people are those who help rather than need, and broken people need rather than help.

Just because someone isn't willing or able to love us, it doesn't mean that we are unlovable.

“Show me a woman who can hold space for a man in real fear and vulnerability, and I’ll show you a woman who’s learned to embrace her own vulnerability and who doesn’t derive her power or status from that man. Show me a man who can sit with a woman in real fear and vulnerability and just hear her struggle without trying to fix it or give advice, and

Rumbling with our story and owning our truth in order to write a new, more courageous ending transforms who we are and how we engage with the world.

Curiosity’s reason for existing is not simply to be a tool used in acquiring knowledge; it reminds us that we’re alive.

We can’t be “all in” if only parts of us show up. If we’re not living, loving, parenting, or leading with our whole, integrated hearts, we’re doing it halfheartedly.

If we numb compulsively and chronically—it’s addiction.

Uncertainty is tricky. It moves good storytelling along—the fun of a whodunit is the mystery—but it can shut down difficult stories we are trying to capture.