Functional But Not Yet Free

Functional But Not Yet Free

For a long time, the people around me thought I was doing fine. From most angles, my life looked stable — even successful.

Inside, I had a word for what was actually happening. A word I made up, because no existing word quite covered it.

Depranxed.

Book Spotlight: How to Talk Amongst Your Selves

Book Spotlight: How to Talk Amongst Your Selves

There’s a conversation happening inside you whether you’re aware of it or not. Parts of you protecting, striving, avoiding, criticizing — often at cross-purposes, often exhausting. This book teaches you how to listen to all of it, and how to lead from who you really are.

This post is a spotlight about the compassionate, practical guide to Self Leadership and the inner life.

You Need to Value Your Needs and Values

You Need to Value Your Needs and Values

Most of us know what it feels like to lose touch with ourselves.

Not dramatically, not all at once — but gradually, across years of adapting, performing, and protecting.

This piece is about that disconnection — and about two things most people dramatically undervalue: their needs and their values.