I was the nice one for thirty years
If you’d asked anyone about me, at almost any point in my first few decades, you’d have heard the same report. Nice. Easy-going. No trouble at all. Never…
If you’d asked anyone about me, at almost any point in my first few decades, you’d have heard the same report. Nice. Easy-going. No trouble at all. Never…
Imagine one of your legs swelled to three times its normal size.
For about a decade I sat down every day, closed my eyes, and fought my own head.
If your mind wandered a thousand times in ten minutes, and you brought it back a thousand times, you just had a better session than the monk.
I spent twenty years and a small fortune trying to add peace to my life.
The quiet loneliness of having changed inside while the room still knows the old you — on distance, small talk, grief, and finding connection again.
If you need four supplements, two apps, a breathing protocol, a cold plunge and a ninety-minute morning routine just to function, that isn’t self-care.
There’s a particular kind of unfairness to it. At nine o’clock you could barely keep your eyes open on the sofa. You went to bed genuinely tired. And the…
I’d come home from an evening out — a dinner, a party, drinks with perfectly lovely people — and be empty. Not pleasantly tired. Drained. Sometimes I’d…
“The answer is within.”