It Will Never Be Fair. Lead Anyway.

It Will Never Be Fair. Lead Anyway.

A man sits across from me and lists it all out. She is cold. She is critical. She does not respect him, does not want him, does not see one ounce of what he carries. Every word of it might be true. And not one word of it is going to help him, because he is sitting...
Say It to Yourself: Mirror Work

Say It to Yourself: Mirror Work

You talk to yourself all day. Might as well start liking the guy. This isn’t about hyping yourself up. It’s about looking the man in the mirror dead in the eye and deciding he’s worth respecting. Sounds simple. It’s one of the hardest ten...
Roll With It

Roll With It

Fighting your day is exhausting, and most of the time you lose anyway. The bad driver who cuts you off, the meeting that runs long, the plan that falls apart before noon. You can rage against all of it, or you can decide to move with it instead of against it....
It Is Okay to Struggle

It Is Okay to Struggle

Twelve years ago I checked myself into a hospital. I was on multiple substances, I was in continuous suicidal pain, and I had a method in my truck. That is not a story I tell lightly. I tell it because someone needs to hear it from a real person who lived through it....