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I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

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

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.

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

It's important to realize that, often, the person we can turn to regarding one issue is not the best person to talk to about other issues.

But for many of us, there is no form of self-expression that makes us feel more vulnerable than dancing. It is full body vulnerability".

Shield required that I stay small and quiet behind it so as not to draw attention to my imperfections and vulnerabilities. It was exhausting.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

We can't opt out of the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure that's woven through our daily experiences. Life is vulnerable.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

When we pretend that we can avoid vulnerability we engage in behaviors that are often inconsistent with who we want to be.

People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.

Key Learning: Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That's why it loves perfectionists - we're so easy to keep quiet. If

Hope is really a thought.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Sometimes when we dare to walk into the arena the greatest critic we face is ourselves.

Hyper-communication can mean we spend more time on Facebook than we do face-to-face with the people we care about.

Nothing silences us more effectively than shame.

In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.

Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

I believe the most useful knowledge about human behavior is based on people's lived experiences.

I think we have to question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain toward other people as a membership requirement.

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

No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.

The gap starts here: We can't give people what we don't have. Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

Life-paralysis refers to all of the opportunities we miss because we're too afraid to put anything out in the world that could be imperfect.

We don't have to experience shame to be paralyzed by it - the fear of being perceived as unworthy is enough to force us to silence our stories.

Effort + the courage to show up = enough.

A leader is anyone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes.

Wouldn't it be better if we could be kinder, but firmer?

Compassionate people are boundaried people.

You know how things always sound better when they're far away and you don't know the details?

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

Shame loves prerequisites. Our if/when worthiness list easily doubles as the gremlins' to-do list.

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Vulnerability is not weakness.

Know how to chameleon our way through the day.

I believe joy is a spiritual practice.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.

First thing we need to understand about shame resilience is that the less we talk about shame, the more we have it.

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.

Or when I loved so fiercely that rather than feeling gratitude and joy I could only prepare for loss - I

Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.

Failure can become nourishment if we are willing to get curious, show up vulnerable and human, and put rising strong into practice. (P.214)

Choosing courage does not mean that we're unafraid, it means that we are brave enough to love despite the fear and uncertainty.

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

If we want to reignite innovation and passion, we have to rehumanize work.

Setting boundaries and holding people accountable is a lot more work than shaming and blaming.

Perfectionism didn't lead to results. It led to peanut butter.

Conspiracy thinking is all about fear-based self-protection and our intolerance for uncertainty.

When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life.

As neuroscientist Antonio Damasio reminds us, humans are not either thinking machines or feeling machines, but rather feeling machines that think.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

Sacrificing who we are for the sake of what other people think just isn't worth it.

I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery.

The greatest challenge for most of us is believing that we are worthy now, right this minute.

I often refer to shame as the fear of disconnection
the fear of being perceived as flawed and unworthy of acceptance or belonging.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

In our technology-crazed world, we've confused being communicative with feeling connected.

There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents.

It's always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun.

Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle.

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

If we're going to put ourselves out there and love with our whole hearts, we're going to experience heartbreak.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all women, men, and children.

Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Hope is a function of struggle.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it.

The hallmark of embarrassment is that when we do something embarrassing, we don't feel alone.

UnMarketing: Don't try to win over the haters; you're not the jackass whisperer.

Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?

The power of owning our stories, even the difficult ones, is that we get to write the ending.

Brown argues that play is not an option. In fact he writes, The opposite of play is not work - the opposite of play is depression.

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

But as poet Mizuta Masahide wrote, "Barn's burnt down / now / I can see the moon.

Who we are' is at least as important as 'what we want to achieve.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

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

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling.

Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.

Unfortunately, being low maintenance also meant not asking for what you needed and never inconveniencing anyone.

When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

Breath for a count of four - one, two, three, four. The breathing method many therapists and mindfulness practitioners