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Worry looks like it’s important or useful; it looks like it’s taking care of you. But worry is only compelling when we don’t understand its true nature. When we see that we are the manufacturer of it, that it’s a projection of our thinking, it loses its power.

One of the things I’m really interested in, and always have been, is simplicity.

For the greater part of my life, I lived in fear. Growing up, I soaked in a bath of fear. I came from a lineage of fearful women. Survivors. My grandmother and my mother were both single mothers, and as my circumstances have unfolded, I am now a single mother, too. 

I believe kindness is a superpower. What I have noticed, as I continue to do my own explorations on myself, as well as in working with others, is that when human beings don’t have a lot on their minds, their kindness just rises up.

Insecure Thinking is becoming my new best friend. How is that possible? I will tell you. I have found that Insecure Thinking is an illusion. A powerful illusion that seduces us into action or has us freeze into doing nothing.

Recently, I applied to the TED women’s conference in San Diego this year. I really wanted to go, I was looking forward to being around this community of women. Yesterday, I received notice that I was declined. They had so many applicants, they said. And they didn’t pick me. In that moment, I recognized that I was having a feeling — of rejection.