Healing and Growth

Today is a hard day. It's a bone-deep-tired, want-to-crawl-in-a-hole-and-hide-for-months hard. The wounded me inside wants to panic and believe that this is how life will always feel. Fortunately, the wounded me no longer runs the show. So today, I honor her. I comfort her. I tell her that I hear her and that it is scary to feel like this. I validate her and speak to her with kindness and compassion. This is the moment where I utilize cognitive defusion: I honor the reality o

Diversity was initially introduced to me in high school biology. In this context, it is a survival adaptation for a species. If every...

A stuffed beige fabric question mark suspended in front of a lighter beige background. A simple question, but I'm not going to give a...

A tree, half thriving, half dead, on an island, reflected in the water, at sunset. One of the best things I ever did for myself was to...