Life is better when you’re chasing your curiosity instead of the approval of others “Everyone else can sit here, why can’t you?” This is what my then mother-in-law asked me when I got up from my seat, after the church meeting was supposed to be over, and when the speaker began a new story. I’ve been asked some version of this question regularly ever since…
No magical thinking required When I was working as an attorney, I threw up almost every day before work. So many mornings, I would vomit in the sink and then look at myself in the mirror. I looked awful. I was miserable. That career path was slowly killing me. That life was another lifetime ago. I closed the doors of my small law firm more than thirteen years ago. These days, I wake up excited. I sing in the shower. I annoy my teenagers with my energy getting ready for the day, and I’m not even a morning person. I have built a life I love, not through manifestation or magical thinking. I have built my current life through trial and…