SAM Frida

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To All the Children No One Saw

To All the Children No One Saw

I’m sorry to all the childrenwho learned to performbefore they learned their own names,who smiled on cuebecause being differentmeant being seenand being seenmeant danger.I’m sorry you told yourselfyou were okaysuch a perfect lieyou believed it for decades,until...

We Built the Altar

We Built the Altar

The Epstein trials aren’t about one monster. They’re about the congregation that kept the temple running. We give these people power. Not because they take it, because we hand it to them. We see the performance, the polish, the pedigree, and we decide: this person is...

The Inheritance We Choose Not to Pass On

The Inheritance We Choose Not to Pass On

There is a quiet revolution happening in homes everywhere, one that rarely makes headlines but changes everything: adults who are choosing to parent differently than they were parented.It starts with a simple but profound recognition: that the hurt we experienced as...

The Pattern Recognition Advantage

The Pattern Recognition Advantage

We spend so much energy trying to predict outcomes in relationships, in families, in communities. We analyze behavior, seek advice, try to figure out why things keep going wrong. And yet we consistently miss patterns that were always visible, just not to anyone we...

The Space Between

The Space Between

Viktor Frankl spent years in Nazi concentration camps observing what separated those who survived psychologically intact from those who didn’t. What he discovered wasn’t about strength or resilience in the traditional sense. It was about awareness of a gap. “Between...

Waking Up

Waking Up

It feels like everything flipped.I think I understand Buddhism a little more now. Not from books or teachers. The pieces click inside you, and no one can hand that to you. Love. You don’t chase it. You don’t follow breadcrumbs. You never shortchange yourself for...

The Freedom of Intention

The Freedom of Intention

There’s a moment in personal growth when something quietly shifts. For most of us, communication starts from a familiar place: How will this land? What will they think of me? Am I coming across the right way? We craft our words, soften our edges, perform versions of...

The Ones Who Feel Too Much

The Ones Who Feel Too Much

For years, we’ve been told to toughen up. To grow thicker skin. To not take things so personally. But what if the people who feel everything, who notice the subtle shift in someone’s tone, who sense when something’s off before anyone says a word, who absorb the energy...