The growth we desire rarely comes through emotions we want to feel. Most of the time it comes through the emotions we don’t want to feel.

Your work is discerning the flavor of an unwanted emotion that you’re willing to feel on purpose. Because you know doing so paves the path to where you want to go and who you want to be.

Thoughts on false pleasure vs. true pleasure and getting out of autopilot.

our gifts—the things that come easy to you but are hard for others—aren’t things you work at. There’s no working on your gifts. The work is being who you already are so the gifts can flow out of you. Your gifts fulfill its purpose through you when you’re being who you are.

Where in your life are you spending energy repeating a story instead of learning a skillset? What might open up for you if you dropped the story and picked up a new skill?

The words we use matter. Words have force behind them. They hold a whole world of meaning.

Gentleness is one of those quiet things—like patience, humility and empathy. We don’t understand how powerful it is until it’s the only thing that facilitates restoration.

Telling yourself you shouldn’t care about what other people think of you when you actually do is a form of self-shaming.

Not caring about what other people think of you doesn’t make you more evolved, morally superior, or better.

Clear thinking to take aligned action comes from a regulated nervous system. It's difficult to take aligned action when you're spinning in confusion and overwhelm i.e. dysregulated.

Aligned action is action that aligns with the person you want to be and what that version of you wants to create in her life.

So how do you know you’re not taking aligned action?

You’ll fall into either of these two categories: