DEAREST YOU AND ME

There’s no value in feeding anxiety about the doom triggered by alleged shortcomings, missteps or failures. Saddle up to those fears—past, present or future—with a generous serving of curiosity instead.

Lives aren’t created at the end, when all the things are done. And our legacies shouldn’t exclusively be made up of the moments when we took “time off”.

The gifts available in trusting life’s magic are always worth more than the temporary comforts of believing you're in control.

You don't get to choose all the things in life, but you and ONLY you get to decide if they will define or liberate you.

There’s nothing gained in playing small, diminishing your light or diluting your energy. You are on this earth to be the person only you can be

The sooner you face the things that feel unbearable and boldly walk through the dark jungles that haunt your mind, you’ll discover these fears are all simply illusions of your ego.

Resist the disingenuous push of fear and allow for the gentle pull of your intuition.

Sometimes, no matter how much it hurts or how much you want it, understanding and resolution of conflict between you and someone else will not actually happen with that person.

It’s the assumption that some of the basic tenants of being human are WRONG, combined with running, avoidance, and distraction from these experiences that truly drives our suffering.

This was on the eve of my oldest’s 10th birthday, and my heart began to reminisce about how mothering a newborn on a plane felt both like something that happened last week and like something that happened to a different woman entirely.