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....
Let Them Be, Whatever

Let Them Be, Whatever

I spend my professional life trying to understand people. It is literally what I do. Someone sits across from me and I am working to see the world through their eyes, to trace the thread from where they are back to where it started. I am good at it, and I genuinely...
Be Your Own Best Friend

Be Your Own Best Friend

You are talking to yourself constantly. Right now, actually. There’s a voice running in the background of everything you do, every decision you make, every mistake you notice. That voice has been there your entire life. And for most people, it is not kind. Most...
Rest Not Panic

Rest Not Panic

Just because your energy crashes for a day or two or three doesn’t mean something is clinically wrong with you. Sometimes you just need to eat, sleep, and slow it down. Give it a minute before you diagnose yourself with something serious. We live in a time when...