Nothing to be ashamed of

The darkness, the secrets, the shame and embarrassment. The pain and despair, the fear and doubt.The nasty thoughts, the self-sabotage. Your messy relationship, your long-term singlehood, your disastrous break-up. The anxiety you hide behind a smile. The depression you call “just tired.” The debt you joke about but secretly fear.

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How to stop self-betrayal

No amount of meditating, self-regulation, self-optimization, positive thinking, affirmative mantras, mindfulness, breathwork, impulse control strategies, cognitive reframing, communication techniques, or energetic frequency-raising will heal the underlying wounded emotions that led you to practice these things in the first place. These emotions need to be felt, loved, understood, and re-parented from a place of mature self-responsibility and curiosity. Otherwise, we stay in victim-based loops of self-betrayal masked as whatever cover-up story we tell ourselves and others.

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