“Shame rarely shows up on the surface.  It’s one of those hidden secrets in our soul, something we carry behind our masks,

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“The way to loving well in a traumatized world requires a level of compassionate self-confrontation deep enough to face ourselves, which in

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“To combat loneliness, we must first learn to identify it and to have the courage to see that experience as a warning

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“Most of us were not taught how to recognize pain, name it, and be with it.  But what we know now is

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“Personal growth is a journey, not an event.  It’s a becoming.  As author Brene Brown writes, ‘Owning our story and loving ourselves

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” . . . we must never use relevance as an excuse to compromise. . . .  adjusting your lifestyle is not

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