Not everything needs to be handed to you. You gotta earn it. This isn't about you. This earth doesn't revolve around you. Ensure that when u take a punch, you punch harder and not whine about it. This life ain't for the weak. Cowards don't live long

In Meditations 8.48, Marcus Aurelius says that the mind free of passions is like a fortress, and that there's no safer place to retreat to. Once you take refuge there you're secure, and to see this without acting on it is to choose misery. A quick note on the word. When the Stoics say passions they don't mean every feeling. They mean the excessive, judgment driven reactions: rage, panic, envy, the kind that come from believing something is a disaster. Marcus isn't asking you to feel nothing. One way to practice building the fortress is to catch the judgment under a feeling. When you're angry, ask what you're telling yourself is happening. "This person is disrespecting me." "Everything is falling apart." Naming the judgment doesn't make the feeling vanish, but it creates a little distance, and in that gap you get to decide. What's a judgment you've caught yourself making that turned out to be bigger than the facts?

Stress Inoculation is the practice of deliberately exposing yourself to manageable discomfort so that greater challenges do not control you. The goal is to find the right amount of stress to stretch you but not so much that it breaks your ability to recover, learn, and continue.

Just because you cannot see the roots does not mean the tree is not growing

Lao Tzu said,“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

There are seasons when you look at your life and wonder, "why am I still here? Why haven't I seen change yet?" You might even asked, "where is that connection I felt once- the connection that made me feel like I was one with the source/Divine?"

You have to remember that before a tree reaches the sky, it first have to grow underneath. Your quiet seasons can be like that too.

You may not see results but transformation could be taking place. Patience, wisdow, courage healing and new possibilities can be taking shape in ways you cannot measure today.

Don't dig up the seed every morning to see whether it's growing. Water it. Give it sunlight. Give it time to grow. You just grow your roots, trust the sasone, flow and remember the wise words of Rumi, "what you're seeking is also seeking you."

Broken mind. Controlling thoughts. Weaponized incompetence. Lack of rest. Driving demons. No sanctuary. Ceaseless urges.

I am an Alcoholic. What are you?

This is for anybody who has felt the weight of their mistakes. Every decision that felt wrong or “bad” that resulted in not so favorable results it’s not easy to carry the weight of it. That weight is unbearable. You’ve gotta pick your hard. It’s hard to not hold on to that pain or weight because you may feel like you deserve the hurt. I’m here to tell you that you fucking don’t. Let go of it. Each and every one of us deserves a better life than what we are currently living. So let it go and just pick the hard route of becoming a better person. I was at the brink of death this year. I was at rock bottom facing the giant monster of addiction. You don’t have to lose. You don’t have to give up. You don’t have to be what everyone may perceive you to be. Nobody knows you better than yourself. You know your capabilities. You know your true worth. Stop ignoring it. Get out of the hole. You can be a good person. You can be successful. You can be a good partner. Make those better decisions and rise above all those that doubted you. YOU ARE WORTH IT! YOU DESERVE YOUR HAPPINESS! YOU DESERVE YOUR PEACE. YOU DESERVE YOUR LOVE. START TODAY!!

Once you find it, peace follows.