Sometimes we fall into relationships because they look good enough, because they’re convenient, because there is no real reason to stop the series of events that quickly unfold into “what do you want me to bring home for dinner?” You care about this person. You guys get along. There’s trust…

Don’t worry about where or who you’re going to be in five years. So much is going to happen by then, you won’t know what your truth will be. Like high school, everything will feel like life or death. Until you look back and realize it wasn’t. The sky will…

First, I’m not a big fan of the whole New Year’s resolutions thing. We should have resolutions every morning. Not just once a year. And like Valentine’s Day, the commercialization of this annual ritual makes me a bit nauseous. It’s hype with no real legs. Jumping on a wobbly bandwagon. …

I’ve lived in fear for most of my life. Afraid to show myself. Afraid to love. Afraid of rejection. The growing grays in my hair. That I won’t be able to get it up one day. Afraid I won’t be able to pay my bills. Afraid my dreams won’t come…

You have to find life in your life. As a practice. Or you’ll always be chasing and tying things to things that may or may not come. So you wait and hope and your life is stripped. By you. A wrecked body, the kind that produces audible noises and a…

Three years of parenting is on the horizon and the greatest take away for me is this: truly understanding what our parents went through. Actually they did more with less. …

We all grew up watching Disney movies and rom-coms, putting our hand over our heart and pledging that we would wait for our person to show up and hold us like they lost and then found us. We have been conned into believing in “the one,” the one perfect person…

TODAY’S MANTRA A true apology comes from a non-defensive place. It comes seeing that you hurt someone, whether your fault or not, someone was hurt. Self-inventory and examining what happened can come later. How to Apologize For Reals So many people believe they’re apologizing when they’re actually not. We witness…

A No BS Guide On How To Sell Your Non Fiction Book — First, who are we to write this article? Hilary Swanson worked at a major publisher for almost a decade, signing up authors, editing manuscripts, and overseeing hundreds of books from concept to publication. John Kim took his unconventional approach as a therapist and channeled it into a blog/brand called The…