Three months ago, I left the Garden of Eden. No, it wasn’t as perfect as the actual garden, but it was my paradise for the last five years. A paradise I definitely took for granted. A lot of that had to do with my ego. I believe that the unconscious mind is the reason for […]
Mind
What Does it Mean to be Radically Responsible?
Sometimes life happens to us. Most times we blame others for our misfortunes. The crazy thing about blaming others is that it’s basically a knee jerk reaction that’s become our default any time something goes wrong. The problem is we’re usually not aware of this. I believe someone said that life is 1% of what […]
Soul
What it Means to Be a Servant Leader
If I were to describe myself as a leader, it would be a servant leader. I think I have a tough time establishing myself as a leader because of it. Yet, it aligns so much with who I am. It’s so different than what prototypical leader is meant to be. So, what is a servant […]
Mind
The Importance of Finding Your Sense of Belonging
We are creatures of community. We need to be around other people. I don’t think that was more evident than these past couple of years where we were forced to socially distance from others. With that change, people struggled. A lot of changes happened in my life. Right now, I’m still on the journey to […]
Mind
Intuition: Why Every Decision Doesn’t Need Proof
Growing up I always wanted to be superhero. We’re human right? We’re not supposed to have any type of superpowers, so that dream kind of dies in childhood. What if I told you we did have a superpower. A power that not a lot of people actually use. It’s called intuition. I think the reason […]
Soul
Why Your Values Should Align with Your Company
If you’re working in 2021, you are witnessing what we are all calling the great resignation. One of the reasons why people are looking for a new job is because they are looking for company values that align with their personal values. This alignment is so important that in a new study from Blue Beyond […]
Soul
Love is Measured in Actions Not Words
When it comes to romantic relationships, I would sadly say that I don’t believe that I’ve been in love before. I don’t think I’ve ever said “I love you” to anyone other than family members. There’s one thing I know about love. It really has little to do with words. It’s not an emotion either. […]
Soul
Perfection is Not a Requirement for Love
This is world is kind of crazy. I feel like we’ve progressed in many ways and regressed in many others. I look back on the whole George Floyd tragedy last year, and this era of cancel culture. With George Floyd, a great majority of people were appalled by what happened to Floyd, but there was […]
Mind
Shame Makes Work Feel Like the Worst Trait of Organized Religion
I feel like I’m in a Brene Brown era of life. Just gobbling up the content. Shame comes with a negative connotation, deservingly so. It’s a. hard emotion to master because it’s an emotion that tells us that we are not enough. That enough is so diverse. We are not good enough, cute enough, or […]
Soul
How to Know When to Leave a Toxic Relationship
The hardest part of love is knowing when to give up on it. Not because you don’t love the person, but you’re not receiving any love in return. In some cases, love doesn’t end in a fairy tale. We fall in love, we get hurt. Some people leave the relationship. Others stay in hopes that […]
Soul
There is Beauty in Your Flaws
Growing up I would definitely say that I was a stoic person. I don’t think anyone could see my emotions because I spent a good amount of my life hiding it from other people. If I was sad, you wouldn’t know it. If I was ecstatic… you still wouldn’t know it. I had (sometimes still […]
Soul
Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett Book Summary
The best part of Permission to Feel, the book by Marc Brackett, is that he really wants us to be comfortable with our emotions in a world that usually doesn’t allow us to be. We see emotions as a hinderance to our well being. I good question to ask in that assertion is why do […]