Same Song, Different Ears

Same Song, Different Ears

Listen to Coldplay’s “Fix You” (or the version I prefer below the post) when you’re broken, and you hear a promise: someone will save me. Listen to it after years of growth, therapy, and learning to sit with your own complexity, and you hear something else...
The Weight of Seeing

The Weight of Seeing

We say the word so easily. Truth. We toss it around in conversations, claim to value it, insist we want it. But do we really understand what it means to hold it? To live inside it? To let it rearrange everything you thought you knew about yourself and the people...
The Thread

The Thread

I was watching Steven Bartlett’s podcast with Jefferson Fisher, and he dropped something that stopped me mid-scroll:“The quality of the relationship depends on the quality of the communication.”That’s it. That’s the whole thing.Not the depth of your feelings. Not how...
Authenticity Is Non-Negotiable

Authenticity Is Non-Negotiable

Authentic people aren’t performing for you. They’re not curating a version of themselves hoping you’ll approve. They’re simply refusing to lie to themselves.That’s the distinction most people miss. Speaking your truth isn’t about being heard. It’s not even about being...
No More Auditions

No More Auditions

I thought if I was perfect enough, gentle enough, successful enough, love would settle in and stay this time. But the rules kept changing, and every approval I earned dissolved into silence a moment later. Then something broke, not in anger, but in clarity. I stopped...