An Antidote to Conditional Love

A post-it note on my office wall reminds me:”Stop loving people for who they could be, or who you want them to be, and start loving people for who they actually are, right now.”Strangely enough, this is not easy.Sometimes the way that people show up in the...

Love is Louder

Being a person is hard. So many relationships are founded on entrenched patterns of judgment, criticism, blame, shame, manipulation, “feedback” (whatever that even means), analysis & evaluations.To make things worse, I then internalize these ways of thinking and...