“I didn’t know it but my feelings of failure were actually making me feel like I was a huge failure. I also had a big gap in my ability to like and have faith in myself. I think that’s why I compared myself so much to others. I went several years taking steps forward, steps backward, and constantly telling myself there was something wrong with me.” 

“I like to watch the mockingbirds perch on the corner of my house and sing. They sing all the time, especially in the spring…”

“My shell eventually became so hard that I found myself covered in self doubt, self judgment, and just overall worry about myself and everything around me…”

“My patient felt a lifelong dream had been met and I felt I had literally accomplished the impossible…”

“ I thought of times when I had quite literally been transformed after the most horrible things I experienced…”

“Sometimes I felt like I was stuck in a hallway, waiting for doors to open…”

“As a child, he visited tobacco fields in his hometown in Canada and learned that the farmers quit watering the tobacco rather early in the season. ‘Why?’ He asked…”

His name was John. Due to a stroke, he was confined to a wheelchair, with only partial use of his left side…

I’ve heard of the Chinese Proverb, ‘Fall down 7 times, stand up 8’…