Blog posts by topic
- achievement
- advice
- anxiety
- assumptions
- attention
- balance
- beginning
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- communication
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- connection
- curiosity
- discipline
- effort
- empathy
- ending
- expectations
- experience
- fear
- freedom
- grief
- growth
- health
- hope
- impact
- journey
- knowledge
- lighthouse
- love
- mindfulness
- mother
- motivation
- motive
- no hacks
- pause
- pay attention
- peace
- persistence
- presence
- relationships
- resource
- seasons
- self awareness
- self-awareness
- shadow self
- success
- time
- toughness
- uncertainty
- values
On anxiety
“We’re wired to seek safety, connection, and meaning. Grief disrupts all three.” - Claire Bidwell Smith
On clinging
“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.” - Jack Kerouac, On the Road
On mothering
“Encouraging someone to be entirely themselves is the loudest way to love them.” - Kalen Dion
On projection
“ ‘Things outside you are projections of what’s inside you, and what’s inside you is a projection of what’s outside.’ “ - Haruki Murakami
On freedom
“ ‘Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real bind. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free.’ ” - Haruki Murakami
On flowering
“Complaining about not achieving success despite working hard is like complaining about an ice cube not melting when you heated it from twenty-five to thirty-one degrees. Your work was not wasted; it is just being stored. All the action happens at thirty-two degrees.” -James Clear
