Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

cultivating trust and connection in relationships as a prerequisite for trying on a less-combative way of engaging with the world.

When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.”

We must walk into the arena,

When you honor what you have, you’re honoring what I’ve lost.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them—we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

Social work is all about leaning into the discomfort of ambiguity and uncertainty, and holding open an empathic space so people can find their own way. In a word—messy.

Self-compassion is also critically important, but because shame is a social concept—it happens between people—it also heals best between people.

I didn’t have the information to get from what I feared, to how I actually felt, and to what I really craved: gratitude-fueled joy.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it’s a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.