There's a reason your good habits never quite fill the tank. It's not your discipline, and it's not your effort. It's something that happened before you had words for it, something almost nobody was ever taught to offer. This post names it, and shows you exactly how to give it to yourself.
Read MoreYou're at the barbecue. You're on the vacation you planned for months. And something in you still can't quite settle.
Nancy felt it too. She wondered if she was too far gone from her spirit to ever find her way back.
Eight weeks later, she threw a pool party just for fun. This explains what actually has to change so you can finally fully enjoy all those good things you've built for yourself.
Read MoreYou were never bad at boundaries. You were just operating inside a system that was never designed to let you come back.
This week, I'm naming the pattern that most self-help completely misses — and what it actually takes to stop losing yourself in all the right decisions.
Read MoreYou're not in it for the trophies. You know that about yourself.
So when that hollow feeling shows up anyway, after the thank you, after the well-meaning praise... it doesn't make sense to you. This post is for that feeling. The one you've been talking yourself out of for years.
Read MoreEvery Memorial Day I think about a man I never met. My grandfather enlisted in World War II when he didn't have to, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Bulge when my mother was three years old. I've come to know him entirely through what he chose to do with his life. This is what that taught me about clarity, and what it costs to live on purpose.
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