Brene Brown

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak. ”

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough. ”

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame. ”

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible. ”

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems. ”

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

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

I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you'd talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story. ”

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body. ”

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. ”