Category: faith and recovery

  • Living Forward

    After a lifetime of learning not to trust anything, a chronic pain book by an unlikely trio — Sarno, Schubiner, and Maté — became an unexpected life preserver. A reflection on undertows, rip currents, and learning to stop fighting the water long enough to float.

  • Toxic Systems and Why You Were Never the Problem

    You were taught your needs were too much — that staying small was safety, and asking for anything meant risking not being wanted. This is about the toxic systems that teach us that, and what real belonging actually feels like instead.

  • Whose Dream Are You Living? Finding Meaning in Your Work Starts With Slowing Down

    A veteran’s eyes stopped me mid-scroll. What I saw in them I had seen in myself — and in the mother, the churchgoer, the exhausted graduate, and the young person submitting hundreds of job applications into silence. Performance culture isn’t just burning us out. It’s handing us someone else’s dream and calling it our own.…