It baffles my mind, truly confounds me, that we aren’t kinder to each other. Why?

Why is there so much focus and aim on being happier? Not enough of us know that there is a power within us that becomes unlocked when we gain the skill and grace to sit with pain, with grief, with anxiety, with sadness.

The windows of “good” moments have grown shorter and less frequent. I’ve begun to settle for moments that aren’t bad.

You do not have to love yourself, others, or life. Nor do you have to hate. You can venture past those drawn lines and see more than that map allows.

One week after my client and I had begun working together, she threw out this comment as she was reflecting on how different everything looked now that she had a deeper understanding of herself and life.

A more poetic piece I wrote about the feeling of anger.

Who are we underneath the weight of our emotional baggage…?

When faced with our greatest challenges, almost all of us have the feeling, “I don’t know how to do this”. I've come to see, we don't actually need to know.

… She was questioning it all - why do good people suffer, children die young, while bad people seem to thrive? I felt called to respond, and thought what I shared would be valuable for anyone wondering similar things.

In that time, I knew clear as day that if the bottom was as horrid as I imagined, or if I kept falling endlessly – there was no possible way I could go on. The only tiny comfort I found during this time was Googling “painless suicide”.