awareness

Your life history impacts you much less than your stories about it.

i think too many people are assuming that they can turn on a "artist" switch after years of making money doing something. probably most confusing while working broadly in the creator world don't underestimate how much the game you are playing changes who you are

It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling responsible for other people's emotions, reactions, and inner turmoil. We have an innate desire to be understood and accepted. So when others seem upset with us, judge us, or want us to change, we leap to explain, rationalize, and pacify. But in our quest to please or appease, we often lose ourselves.... See more

Addictions are attempts to attain bliss without releasing defensive patterns.

My most effective life hack has been to learn to be with my inner experience, just as it is. It changes everything. Unfortunately, most people want a more complicated solution and are dissatisfied with that answer. I just sit with that. :)

Stuff happens. Your stories about it determine whether it’s manageable or not.