Braving the Wilderness

I started to talk about my fears and my hurt. I started questioning what was important to me and why

this is actually when I started choosing research and data over vulnerability.

Our families and culture believed that the vulnerability that it takes to acknowledge pain was weakness

If you can see your path5 laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path

I shall not be moved

My parents, especially my father, valued being cool and fitting in above all else. I was not cool. I didn’t fit in

Grief for the girl who never belonged anywhere and a longing to figure out who I was, what I liked, what I believed in, and where I wanted to go

It’s an emotion that we need to transform into something life-giving: courage, love, change, compassion, justice

they were talking about dehumanizing language and behavior