SAM Frida

There are people who will tell you they understand you. They’ll say it with confidence. They’ll list the evidence. They’ve observed you. Studied your patterns. Catalogued your reactions. They’ll call themselves emotionally intelligent because they’ve learned the...

Before you could read, you could read a room. You knew which version of yourself kept things calm. You knew when to shrink. You knew the difference between love and tolerance, even if no one had taught you those words yet. That was the agreement. Be manageable. Be...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...