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  • Life Is Improv: One Moment Doesn’t Define You

    Life Is Improv: One Moment Doesn’t Define You

    I’m hanging out in Chicago, Illinois waiting for an improv intensive to start, and now I’m reminded that life is like an improv show. Doesn’t matter how much you prepare—sometimes it just doesn’t go as well as you’d like it to. Not to say that life doesn’t go as well as you would like it…

  • Building Perfect Systems as Disguised Avoidance

    Building Perfect Systems as Disguised Avoidance

    Recently I had a therapy session where things seem to come down to: I have a problem with control. That is, I like to be in control. And that’s not surprising anyone who knows me. But the interesting part was when I really looked at it…Things like my to-do list, right? I’m always managing my…

  • Lean Into Being Unique

    Lean Into Being Unique

    There’s something worth sitting with in the idea that unhappiness often comes not from who we are, but from the effort of trying to be someone we’re not. For many people, years of adapting — to expectations, to environments, to what felt safe — can quietly disconnect us from our own instincts and sense of…