In today's episode, I'm talking about one of the greatest gifts of being human: the ability to rewrite our stories.

I've done it over and over — getting sober, healing my eating disorder, changing how I relate to friendship, work, love. The EMDR reached the stories that were cemented deepest in my body.

But you don't need EMDR to rewrite your story. You need the willingness to see the old version for what it is — a first draft — and the courage to start acting into the new one.

Mark Nepo reminds us: "There is very little difference between burying and planting. For often, we need to put dead things to rest, so that new life can grow."

Question to carry into your day: What story has your body been carrying that your adult self is ready to rewrite?

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In today's episode, I'm telling you about the time I got the flu, cancelled my whole week — including patients, which was not easy — and thought I had surrendered.

And then discovered that the real surrender was still coming.

Post-viral fatigue taught me that my body doesn't check my calendar before deciding it needs more rest.

And the distance between the bratty scream and the surrender? It's getting shorter.

That's not perfection. That's practice.

Melody Beattie reminds us: "At no day, no hour, no time are you required to do more than you can do in peace."

Question to carry into your day: What is your body asking you for right now that you keep saying no to?

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In today's episode, I'm telling you about the time my kitchen turned purple — and how the worst thing about my house in Charlotte turned out to be the very best thing about it once I got Danny.

It's a story about perspective, about how fast we decide something is a disaster, and about what happens when we stay long enough for the gift to reveal itself.

John O'Donohue reminds us not to be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy — because it will open a new place in our hearts.

Question to carry into your day: What are you looking at right now that might look completely different six months from now?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing the phone call where my friend and I were deep in fear about the state of the world — and then she pivoted to asking about a supplement.

And the sacred pause that followed when she realized: I'm not looking for a supplement. I'm looking for an escape from how I feel.

Geneen Roth reminds us: "All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story."

Question to carry into your day: What are you fixing right now so you don't have to feel something?

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In today's episode, I'm getting honest about why the EMDR intensive hit so deeply... I have no idea.

What I do know is this: you never know which healing experience is going to be the one that cracks you open.

And because you can't know, the only option is to stay open, stay relentless, and keep walking through doors.

The Al-Anon daily reader Courage to Change reminds us: "Building trust takes time, change takes time, healing old wounds takes time." And: "I will trust the process of recovery. I'll let time take time."

Question to carry into your day: What have you given up on in your healing that might deserve another chance?

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In today's episode, I'm talking about the phone call I had with a friend of mine who told me she was "grieving the end of her career."

And why I gently pushed back — because what she was describing wasn't the end. It was a messy middle.

And our brains are actually wired to prefer bad certainty over good uncertainty, which is why we'd rather call something dead than sit in the not-knowing.

Brené Brown reminds us: "The middle is messy, but it's also where the magic happens. You can't skip day two."

Question to carry into your day: What are you calling "over" that might just be unfinished?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing what happened after I completed a month-long EMDR intensive — and why the days that followed were some of the most important days of the whole process.

But this isn't just about therapy. It's about any time you open yourself up, give everything you have, and then judge yourself for needing to rest afterward.

Wayne Muller reminds us that we have to let the seeds we've planted get a chance to germinate, take root, and grow — and stop tearing them out of the ground to check if they've grown yet.

My friend Betsy said the thing I needed to hear: "You just did so much heavy lifting of your spirit. Of course you're tired."

Question to carry into your day: What are you not letting yourself rest from?

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In today's episode, I'm talking about the thing Harrison Ford's character says on Shrinking that made me pause the TV: "You don't know whether your choice is right or wrong until you make it."

I share why so many of us get trapped in the spin cycle of overthinking and worrying — and why worry is not a form of preparation, no matter how much it feels like one.

Eckhart Tolle reminds us that any action is often better than no action, because even a mistake teaches you something. But staying stuck? That teaches you nothing.

Question to carry into your day: What decision are you spinning on that you actually already know the answer to?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing what happened when a client in deep grief told me she wanted to double down on a strict food plan — and why I suggested something completely different instead.

I suggested: What if your food plan right now is just to make the next loving choice?

Megan Devine reminds us that some things cannot be fixed — they can only be carried. And that true comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away.

Today's Word of the Day is Tender — because when you're in a hard season, what you need isn't more discipline. It's more kindness.

Question to carry into your day: Where are you trying to control something that actually just needs your tenderness?

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In today's episode, I'm telling you about the night my ex walked into my meeting and turned into a brick wall.

I felt the armor go up, the rage come in, and the toxic smoke start pouring out of me.

But then I tried something I didn't plan — I started naming the truth of who he is instead of the story of how he hurt me. And my heart started to change.

Question to carry into your day: Who are you seeing as an enemy right now that you could try seeing as a thirsty person?

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