29: Ego’s Rabbit Hole
Too often, stories in my life have been real because I needed them to be true, not because they are true.
Read More 29: Ego’s Rabbit HoleAuthor: Wanders
#Infidelity is an outcome of an unskillful coping mechanism, everything else is a story someone imagines. Sharing thoughts and letters with those the men and women that #betrayed their Loves, lives, and selves too. What you do today matters most. All anyone can do is own the experience and practice doing better.
28: Anger Management
Betraying my wife is not a mindful approach to anger. It reflected a lack of boundaries and a mistake in how I approach feelings I find difficult.
Read More 28: Anger Management27: Wayne’s World
Now I live in the new moment, each just as fragile and impermanent.
Read More 27: Wayne’s World26: It’s Just a Feeling
Thoughts are just thoughts, feelings are just feelings. Those uncomfortable experiences aren’t directives to act. They aren’t even real.
Read More 26: It’s Just a Feeling18: A Love Letter to Betrayers – Imagining Shame
Ghost stories are not based on the realities of my actions but simply imaginings of my intentions intended to slave me to the mast of someone else’s emotional shipwreck. Letting shame go will cut you from the mast and make you the captain of your own destiny.
Read More 18: A Love Letter to Betrayers – Imagining Shame25: Loving Karen
The truth is I offered her far more grace than I gave myself.
Read More 25: Loving Karen24: Getting it Right
“I’m here to get it right, not be right.” – Brene Brown
I acted dickishly. And by dickishly, I mean I responded with bravado to avoid being vulnerable to a woman I love whose anger still wounds me after all this time.
Read More 24: Getting it Right23: This and That. Briefly.
22: Singing to Monsters
When all else fails, try therapy.
Read More 22: Singing to Monsters21: Briefly This and That
A bit more of this and that.
Read More 21: Briefly This and That
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