Sometimes they don’t have what we need.
One of the toughest things is realizing that someone we love or care about or work with doesn't have what we need or want.
love well, let in, and live fully
Boundaried not guarded. Self-preservation not protection. This is how I want to live my life. No matter how the hurts, the losses, and the disappointments, either by life or by people, I will not allow my heart to close off into protection and
Look at us changing the world!
I will never get to experience the pride of seeing my child score the winning goal or ace the test or be kind to a stranger or graduate or get the dream job or walk down the aisle to a
It lies within us.
What we need to heal, to move forward, and even to forgive does not lie outside of us. It's in us. Is it harder without the accountability, without the I'm sorry, without the change on their part? Of course. And still, I promise, what
People can change.
People can change.If I didn't believe that, I would go do something else for a living.Sometimes, they don't want to change.*Sometimes, they change too late.*Sometimes, the hurt has been too much, and it doesn't matter to you if they change.*People
“You do more than teach the work. You embody it.”
Quite possibly one of the best compliments. Two days in a place I never expected that my work would bring me, and yet I was back for the third time in the Panhandle of Nebraska. Monday it was day one of
We can all learn and grow and change.
If I didn't believe people couldn't learn, grow, and change, I would go do something else for a living. Sometimes they don't want to. Sometimes they make you think for a long while they won't either. And yet, we all
sit beside, seek to understand, and do
Maybe today, rather than shouting our either/or solution at someone, we could sit beside, seek to understand, and do, and I mean really freaking do, something different.
Love. Connection. Grace.
For as much as a constant change is in our lives, it seems like it is the thing we also struggle with the most a lot of the time.
A Courage Teach (grab your headphones and maybe tissues)
A courage teach about how change really happens and how not to be defined by what others think. Cliff notes: it's in relationship, not in cheap feedback.
