Category: Life Together
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What Broke at Home Didn’t Stay There
How did I get here? What habits, choices, beliefs, fears, wounds, relationships, or outside nudges have formed the family area of my life into what it is today? I heard my own voice when I was painting last week, and, for a second, I thought my father had somehow stepped back into the room. Same…
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Your Family Still Lives in You!
What is this family area of my life, and how is it shaping me? How is it affecting my energy, peace, relationships, decisions, freedom, purpose, and future? [A disclaimer: When I speak of the ‘family area of life’ – I’m referring to the people in the environment you grew up in… whether it was with…
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Accept or Agree?
I was listening to someone recently, listening to them explain why they had cut a person out of their life. The real issue was not betrayal or abuse. It was disagreement. That’s where a lot of us live now. We act as if acceptance is compromise, as if making room for someone means surrendering our…
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Be The Change?!
I’ve grown suspicious of that phrase. Not because it sounds wrong. Because it sounds too right. Too clean. Too flattering. Too easy to say while your own life is still full of compromise, vanity, and carefully protected dysfunction. “Be the change” sounds noble until you realize how easily it turns you into your own messiah.…