Category: Emotional Intelligence

  • When the Shell Cracks: Finding Truth Beyond Religious Performance

    Truth always finds a way to surface. Our ego tries to keep everything together, but eventually the shell cracks and what’s inside starts leaking out. If we’re brave enough to look at what seeps out instead of frantically patching the holes, we might find what we’ve been searching for all along.

  • What AI Taught Me About Human Connection

    Here’s an excerpt for your WordPress blog post: What if AI isn’t the real problem? Through my own experience using AI as a tool for self-reflection, I’ve discovered that our fear of technology replacing human connection might be missing the deeper issue. The real challenge isn’t artificial intelligence – it’s that we’ve lost the ability…

  • Finding My Way Back to Myself

    Why did I so readily follow a dangerous man wherever he went? Why did it all feel like the right thing to do? Looking back on my time in church, I’m still trying to understand what made me believe a rigid belief system and a broken pastor could fill the gaps in my life. The…

  • Rethinking Emotions: How Your Brain Constructs Your Emotional Experience

    Rethinking Emotions: How Your Brain Constructs Your Emotional Experience

    “You are an architect of your experience.” – Lisa Feldman Barrett Last week I watched a YouTube video by Lisa Feldman Barrett on how emotions are created. After watching the Inside Out movies, I initially thought emotions were just a normal part of being human—automatic reactions that tell us important things about ourselves. But Barrett’s research…