"Honesty is primarily an attitude of inclusivity, of accepting and acknowledging what's there. It's about being real, and true to who you are, and how you are. The transparent openness to yourself, along with the warmth of self-empathy, creates the conditions for the sweetness of connection to occur. And as you may have already experienced, hard episodes in life, when shared, can become a binding factor in relationship."  --Pati Bielak-Smith