“Making amends is like tending a garden. You can’t undo the neglect, but you can return with water, patience, and care.” Saying “I was wrong” is one of the most difficult sentences for the ego to form — and one of the most transformative. To recognize that we have...
Think back to a moment, even a brief one, when you felt truly at ease. Not elated. Not numb. Not “fine.” But quietly settled in your body, breathing without effort, aware without being on guard, present without being pulled. That feeling is not incidental. It is your...
You’re calm, doing your own thing. Then someone snaps — a stranger in traffic, a neighbour critiquing your dog-handling, unsolicited judgment from another parent in the grocery aisle. Before you know it, your voice sharpens. Your body tightens. You walk away...
Our mind is a storyteller — constantly interpreting, filtering, and shaping reality. These interpretations aren’t random; they’re rooted in survival. In childhood, family systems, school, culture, and religion, we learned templates for making sense of uncertainty....
We hear the word empathy everywhere — in workplaces, relationships, and especially in therapy. It’s become a virtue, a benchmark for emotional intelligence, sometimes a pressure to feel more than we have capacity for. But empathy is not the only way we connect, and...
We are always speaking inwardly, even in silence. This ongoing conversation, self-talk, becomes the unseen architecture of our emotional life. Sometimes it’s a steadying presence, a quiet coach reminding us we’re capable. More often, it is a relentless judge,...
