I’ve spent my life running from my fears. Most of us have. I mean, who wants to go down the mental path of playing out a worst-case scenario to its bitter end? Seems too intense to face such harsh realities. Going deep into our fears is more than most of us are ready to embrace.
Read MoreI was cleaning up my hard drive over the weekend and came across this story told by my then 11-year-old son. Couldn’t resist posting it…
There once was a seed. It sat buried beneath the dirt covered by the warmth of the sun and the occasional bathing of the rain. It grew, and it grew.
Imagine you're in a long-term relationship with someone you love deeply. Someone with whom you plan to spend the rest of your life.
But they wish you were different.
They keep telling you all the ways in which you could be better.
They have lists of the many ways you could be different…
How many of you have felt isolated and even rejected in the midst of your dis-ease?
What happens when you’ve sung that hidden illness tune so many times that your song is no longer heard?
Maybe it started with the doctors who couldn’t see anything wrong with you in their impersonal work-ups.
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