Elephant Meditation

12/05/2025

"Usually, I enter December racing from one thing to another, full of plans and ideas. This year, that energy just was not with me. Instead, I felt a quiet pull..."

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12/04/2025

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12/04/2025

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12/04/2025

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"People said, 'You’re so strong.' What they didn’t see was that my strength was really endurance—an armor I had learned to wear so well that even I forgot how heavy it was."

12/04/2025

I’m going to start asking myself this daily, even when I’m not anxious.

The mind is beautiful. Our capacity to strategize, plot, and plan, is what allows human beings to build cities, invent amazing technologies, and coordinate vast interactions across the network we call the Internet. The human mind is indeed amazing.

12/03/2025

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12/03/2025

12/03/2025

Learning acceptance is one of the best gifts we can give to ourselves:

Acceptance feels light; it feels spacious, freeing. It opens up space within us. Learning acceptance is one of the best gifts we can give to ourselves. So often, we want to resist

12/03/2025

"The world doesn’t need more perfect leaders. It needs more human leaders. Leaders who acknowledge their shadows instead of projecting them. Leaders who transform fear into courage, defensiveness into curiosity, and shame into connection."

Leadership books love acronyms, step-by-step plans, and glossy frameworks that promise to turn us into the kind of leaders people will admire. What they rarely talk about is shadow.

12/03/2025

This affirmation has helped me through some of the most challenging times in my life:

There's just something so empowering about recognizing who we are and using our names to remind ourselves that we are freakin' badass and can conquer all the sh*t we go through.

12/02/2025

“Messing up is hard because it fills us with shame, disappointment, and anger. I can’t let go of my shame because I can’t let go of the fact that I’m flawed.”

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12/02/2025

"I was terrified. Yet, through this whirlwind, I learned to embrace the unknown and let go of the illusion of control. Finding calm in chaos wasn’t easy for someone who thrives on structure. But in surrendering, I discovered an inner strength I didn’t know I had."

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