The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

slumber parties because I was too afraid to ask to go home. I’m proud of you.” The next morning during breakfast, ...

As these stories illustrate, courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone aro ...

We live in a blame culture—we want to know whose fault it is and how they’re going to pay. In our ...

ourselves into disliking someone so we’re more comfortable holding them accountable, we’re primi ...

“those who offer help” and “those who need help.” The truth is that we are both. I’ve learned so much ab ...

a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we’reLove is the most important thing in our lives, v ...

claiming our worthiness is cultivating a better understanding of love and belonging. Oddly enough, we desperat ...

It took me three years to whittle these definitions and concepts from a decade of interviews. Let’s take ...

betray someone or behave in an unkind way toward them, you are not practicing love. And, for me, I don’t just ...

In 2008, I was invited to give a talk at a very special event called The UP Experience. I really like ...

little puppet show too. Normally it takes me a day or two to develop a talk. I never speak from not ...

I tried to explain, “I don’t really study ‘how-to’ be joyful and have more meaning in our lives. I kn ...

in and your talk finished in the top two of the day, and given what you study, you were the dark hors ...

As we discussed in the last chapter, when we struggle to believe in our worthiness, we hustle for it. The ...

hides in our darkest corners, it actually tends to lurk in all of the familiar places, ...

commonly asked questions about shame. I think it will help you wrap your head and heart around ...

parenting work. Whatever. I was so pissed off. I paced back and forth in the kitchen, then sat down ...

A week later I was standing in front of a group of seventy graduate students who were taking my c ...

Most of us use all of these—at different times with different folks for different reasons. Yet all of t ...

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in ...