Is it just me, or does it feel like the heavy has been coming in DROVES lately?One thing happens, and before your heart figures out what to do with that,...
It happens soooo subtly—oftentimes we don’t even realize we are doing it.You’re getting dressed and think, I should look better than this by now. You watch someone handle something with...
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...
When you survey your responses to feedback or reflect on your tendency to get defensive, would you say that you are teachable?I know you want to be teachable—I do too....
It’s subtle…but urgency has a voice.And for a lot of us, it sounds responsible. Attentive. Even faithful.“Fix it before it unravels.”Stay ahead. Think it through. Get in front of it.And...
It feels contradictory…like how can both exist together? The overwhelming sense of “this is hard” or “I expected this to look different”, and also the steady river of hope running...
Some of what drains us most… isn’t loud.It’s subtle.Internal.Easy to justify.The overthinking that feels responsible.The pressure that feels like care.The control that disguises itself as wisdom.And slowly, we begin carrying...
You don’t even realize it’s not yours to carry…some of it felt noble…some of it felt necessary…and some of it just became your normal. It has become weight in the...