Listening to shame

                      

• “Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”

• “Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.”

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

• “You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

• “Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.”
                    
• “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. ”

• “Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.”
• “You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.”

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

• “That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.”

• “If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment.”

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