You cannot "mind over matter" a dysregulated nervous system. Powerful communication skills and mindset hacks can truly accelerate growth, but those tools are designed to be used from a neutral — regulated — nervous system. So what do you do when you’re dysregulated?

To live well is to make choices all day every day that prioritize inner harmony over choices that disrupt it. That means choosing to take responsibility for your needs so that you can better show up for others.

Travel in its own right does something magical for us: it makes us aware of the fact that we see the world through a specific lens and so do other people who were raised in other places and those lenses may not be the same. And that realization permanently changes us.

We have a lot of examples of what not to do, just look anywhere on social media. In this article, I’ll discuss how to engage in an emotionally intelligent conversation that helps bring actual progress to systemic racism.

Yesterday was my ten year anniversary of moving to Denmark. It'd be compelling to put all ten of those years into one box, and wrap it all up with answers to the common questions like "why I moved here?" But if I've learned anything in my time here, it's that expatriation is incredible nuanced.

What does it mean if someone isn’t emotionally available to you? What does it mean if someone is open-hearted toward you?

Reflecting on my life thus far, it’s become clear to me that almost all of my suffering has come from two singular factors.

And just in case you’re wondering, neither is “fine,” “interesting,” or “good.”

In early 2018, after unearthing some deep insights about my relationship with myself, I decided to get married...to god. As it turns out, this path has been everything but linear.