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“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weaknesses.”
– Brené Brown

Last week, I was told by my coworker that…

“Perhaps that is why the people we love most can hurt us the most. They matter. They have access to the places in us that others never reach.”
– Amy Meyers

I’ve found myself thinking about a question that feels both…

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
– Viktor Frankl

I am a rare gem. I listen. I am empathic…

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.”
– Brené Brown

There’s a saying in social work that is so common and maybe you’ve heard it too—maybe even more than once…

“The hours we spend with ourselves are the foundation of every true friendship; solitude is not absence, but preparation.”
– May Sarton

We are living in a culture of loneliness. In fact, it is now referred to as the epidemic of loneliness experience…

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell

Looking back to when I first started college, I remember the constant pressure I put on myself to have everything figured out…

“If you feel pain, you are alive. If you feel other people’s pain, you are a human being.”
– Leo Tolstoy

There’s something I’ve been sitting with lately that feels heavy, and I imagine I’m not the only one. As social workers…