At a time when there's so much external encouragement to monetize everything, especially the things that others have deemed "valuable", she said no.

How often do we use fear and self-judgement as our fuel? Many of us started listening to our hateful inner drill sergeant long before we were aware that we had one.

When you learn how to lift and fling the weight of self-judgement off of you, you can explore those old stories and “shoulds” with compassion.

You can see where you might’ve picked them up, what kept them in place, and start to replace the old heavy stories with new, lighter, more empowering ones. You can share more of you with the world.

As long as my value is dependent on someone’s greater or lesser value, then it demands a world where there are people that are less valuable than me.