A Conversation with Adey: A Time to Sow and a Time to Reap
About two months ago, after my first interview with Adey Chekol was met with such a resounding response, we sat down for a follow-up conversation. The topic was “shadow work”, which focused on the need to dig deep within ourselves…
Lessons from Strangers: Resiliency and the Redemptive Power of Love
I just met two amazing couples who exuded profound joy while canvassing for signatures. They both shared the same “secret” about successful marriages—humility and teamwork. The wife from the first couple told me that she had to learn overtime not…
A Note to Fellow Empaths: Being Wronged by People You Help is God’s Way of Teaching You to Finally Love Yourself
It’s a story I am intimately familiar with because I have witnessed it in countless people I have met throughout my life and lived this reality myself. There are some who make it their purpose to give everything to others—to…
What Was Not Done for Us…
Even when we forget, we always remember. The painful memories we stuffed deep inside and the traumas we blurred away with the awful benevolence of time live on even as we pretend we are alright only to be triggered by…
This Wisdom that Arrived Upon My Heart: Coping is Prison, Feeling is Freedom
You never know what freedom feels like until you escape the walls that have kept you in bondage for so long. I write this not from a place of piety as if I have life figured out but as a…
Pains of My Parents: My Journey to Break the Stronghold of Generational Traumas
It hit me like a ton of bricks while driving Uber a couple of days ago, pains that I locked away and sorrows I barricaded in the deepest recesses of my mind came rushing out like the Ghion River during…
