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Leaving our ego at the door: learning the power of humility
Don’t you wish you could give the younger version of yourself advice? Man, the things my ego has taught me. Ego is linked with anxiety and fear, fear of being vulnerable and showing the side of yourself you’re not proud of. Like honestly, the things I’ve learned and experienced in this lifetime has humbled me beyond words. When we’re younger we think we got it all figured out, from the moment we get that diploma placed in our hands we feel like the world is ours. I was somewhat naive and shielded from what the real world was like, I thought I knew who I was and what I wanted…
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Family ties: how toxic family relationships really impact your life.
I came from a dysfunctional family, but yet again who didn’t? My parents divorced when I was 5, so I really don’t remember them being together. My parents were polar opposites so I’m still puzzled how they were ever a couple, but that makes sense for most of my adult relationships. My mother was a wild child, rebellious as hell; my father a strict Christian man. As I grew up I saw how their lives split into two very different paths. Life with my mother was chaotic and unstable, we lived with my Grandmother and my disabled Aunt. I remember being evicted from our beautiful apartment as the Marshall’s came…
