This is how your life will go.
When you are born, you will be born. Welcome to humanity. When you are three years old, you will have developed a model for how you earn love, safety, and praise. When you are seven, something unique to you will happen. When you are fourteen, your body will transform into something society calls “adult”. When […]
Embrace the Villain Inside you
Serving others is a virtue. This we believe. However, many of us believe we are unlovable unless we are serving others. We are the givers, the doers, the planners, the ones who put everyone else first. And we lose ourselves in the process. This inevitably generates feelings of resentment, anger, rage. Yet, we believe that […]
That time I realized I was the villain.
I remember the moment I realized I wasn’t the hero in my life’s story. I was deep into the process of destroying two families — maybe three. I never bothered to check on that last one. As her life unraveled around her, my wife did something so incredibly brave, so unimaginably vulnerable, so unbelievably forgiving, […]