Love Letters to a Healing Heart
"Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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 Right“Accountability doesn’t mean punishment. Accountability is a willingness to accept responsibility for our own actions.”
Read More 15: Reminder2self: AccountabilityIn truth, I didn’t value myself either, and as such I acted accordingly. Like Reese Piper, “I didn’t realize what it would cost me” to try to be everything for others leaving little for myself.
Read More Thoughts on The Cost of Feigning IntimacyThe cynical and bitter will call it image management.
Everyone else will call it adulting.
Read More 02: Own Your ShameWhat matters is my commitment to change and not what others think of my intentions or motivations. I get up every morning and ask myself, “What is my truth to own today?”
Read More 63: Pursuing Vulnerability