There’s a certain kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much—it comes from trying to figure out too much.We carry questions like they’re assignments. We replay, predict, analyze,...
There are things we’ve learned to carry so well (or so we think), we stop asking if they were ever ours to hold. The offense. The hurt. The conversations we...
We live under so many scripts we never meant to write.Unspoken assumptions about what our lives should look like, quiet fears that whisper what we will never be, long-standing narratives...
You are not the keeper of everyone’s happiness.You are not required to rescue every heavy moment, rewrite someone else’s story, or hold the emotional temperature of a room.You can show...
I wonder how many things we worry about, get in our heads about, or let ourselves be consumed by that are related to the timeline of our lives.Whether something isn’t...
It’s inevitable.You see pictures? You make assumptions.You scroll through stories? You string together a story you know nothing about.You hear about advancements, victories, promotions, answered prayers, etc. and you place...
You want to pick one, right?The notion that you could feel two intense, strong, heavy emotions at one time feels overwhelming or maybe even wrong? Confusing?How is it that you...
I don’t think it’s often intentional—like if you knew how much time you were dedicating to being consumed by something you knew you couldn’t change, surely you would change courses,...