Confront Your Shame

Confront Your Shame

Confront your shame head-on. It does not matter how it got there or who put it there. It is yours now. And the only way out runs straight through it, not around it. A lot of people have a hard time with that framing because it sounds like victim-blaming. It is not....
Resentments Map Your Work

Resentments Map Your Work

Every resentment I carry is telling me something about myself. That took me a long time to accept, because it is a lot more comfortable to believe that resentment is about the other person, about what they did, about how wrong they were. And sometimes they were wrong....
Radical Self-Acceptance

Radical Self-Acceptance

There are moments when a person feels like they are the only one who cannot get it right. Like something is fundamentally broken in them. Like the love and connection that seem to come naturally to other people will always be just out of reach. I have been there. I...
Passion Intimacy Commitment

Passion Intimacy Commitment

There are three things that define whether you are actually in a relationship or just sharing an address with someone. Passion. Intimacy. Commitment. If all three are absent, you are living with a stranger. If one of them has turned hostile, you might be living with...
Gratitude Precedes Hope

Gratitude Precedes Hope

Gratitude is not just a feel-good practice that belongs in a journal or a morning routine. It is the prerequisite for hope. And without hope, a man cannot move forward in any meaningful direction. That connection matters more than most people realize, and...