20: A Love Letter to Betrayers – Court

Your mistakes do not make you unworthy of legal protections.

32: Languages of Love

Love is not enough. Dr. Stan Tatkin Today I met a woman at the hospital that speaks seven languages. Her husband speaks one. She told me her verbal gymnastics irritates her husband when she mumbles under her breath in multiple languages. When emotionally charged, she will often weave English, French, Yiddish, German, and Russian into […]

31: Swimming Beyond the Breakers

I had hoped someone would love me enough to see me while knowing my struggles were never about them. My hope contained both a selfish expectation and deep longing.

30: Savoring Loneliness

I’m not feeling lonely; I’m savoring it.

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.

27: Wayne’s World

Now I live in the new moment, each just as fragile and impermanent.

26: 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.

15: Reminder2self: Accountability

“Accountability doesn’t mean punishment. Accountability is a willingness to accept responsibility for our own actions.”

12: Broken Cups

The Thing always breaks where the bonds are weakest, not strongest.

07: A Love Letter to the Betrayers – Haters

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who […]