This is my favorite thing about seaweed: it feels so much like my neurodiverse brain.

People who aren't neurodiverse tend to frame neurodiversity as symptoms of inconvenience to people around them. For me, my ADHD means beauty.

Remind me that success is not the only measure of a life.

I believe that we are all "life drummers" just waiting to join in the rhythm.

I have struggled forgiving myself for not knowing how to create appropriate boundaries.

Self-compassion was one of the best gifts I gave myself.

I don’t know exactly when it happened, but something began to change.

You are loved beyond your wildest imaginings by the spirit of creation.

Once, during my ministerial internship, a woman I’ll call Clara came up to me during the hustle and bustle before the Sunday service. I knew that Clara struggled with anxiety; now, in great distress, she told me how anxious she was and that she didn’t know what to do. She was frantic, and I...

We have to keep finding ways to widen the circle of care and concern.

To be queer is to know the ways of holding all that shimmers to the light.

Happy kids are safer kids, because happy kids have adults they can ask for help.

To understand that my humanity and my abundant flesh both demand dignity is to embrace fat liberation.

My God lives in the margins and witnesses to the broken-hearted.

Spirit of Life, remind me to release that which no longer serves me so that I may be present to joy.

Feel that? Each breath, every inhale, exhale We are living, breathing, connected. We are the whole, complete, beautiful selves that we were born to be. Feel that? In your bones, in your muscles In your heart and your blood That is the extraordinary you. The you who was born for this time, this...

There is a Universal Love that has never broken faith with us and never will.

We all have our foibles; pieces of ourselves that we both admire and occasionally revile. These gifts and struggles exist in tandem.

We have so many opportunities to bless each other in this world, but they don’t always announce themselves as moments of profound transformation.

Surround yourself with skillful teachers. Let them teach you, but don't let them do it for you. That learning is yours to do.