We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others.
I only share when I have no unmet needs that I’m trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.
I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.
The opposite of play is not work – the opposite of play is depression.
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.
Tell your story with your whole heart.
I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure – like Ninja Barbie, but I’m Vulnerability TED.
The two most powerful words when we’re in struggle: me too.
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.
There really is “no effort without error and shortcoming” and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
How can we embrace rest and play if we’ve tied our self-worth to what we produce?
Joy comes to us in moments – ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.
In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.
The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.
Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.
Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.
What’s worth doing even if you fail?
Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It’s like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really ‘arrive,’ but we certainly know that we’re heading in the right direction.