More than 10 photo albums in a cabinet I barely open, and I can still tell you what's on page four. On what we keep, and why keeping isn't the same as looking...
January has a way of staying loud. New opinions, new predictions, new advice. On a quieter kind of subtracting: noticing how much I don't need to hear today...
After the holidays comes a different kind of tiredness. Not from doing too much, but from explaining too much. On choices that feel settled until we defend them...
It’s Christmas Eve. A day that often arrives with more noise, movement, and quiet pressure than we expect. So instead of a long letter, I wanted to send you something...
It's mid-December, and everyone is making plans for more. This year I'm writing a to-don't list instead, a note on what we might be ready to leave behind...
Welcome back to The Upside of the Downside. This week: those moments when life pushes harder than you expected, and what they can show us about our strength...
From the series: The Upside of the Downside Last time, we talked about confidence, and how it grows softer and more real when life humbles you. This week, I want to turn...
From the series: The Upside of the Downside In our last episode, we explored the strange mirror of comparison and how easily we can lose ourselves by measuring against...
From the series: The Upside of the Downside Welcome back to The Upside of the Downside. In our last conversation, we explored what it means to face setbacks and...