Integrity

Stop the fearing. Shut off the news. Turn off social media.

I did not grow up consciously knowing what I know now or doing what I do today. We all carry the innate ability to heal…

When we swim upstream against the natural rhythms and cycles of the Universe - against what is asking to move, die, or transform - we create unnecessary chaos. Resistance doesn’t stop change...It only makes it harsher.

Honouring purpose, connection, and tradition gives us the trunk of our tree. Without it, we sway wildly, constantly reaching outward for meaning, identity, and belonging. When we are untethered from our own lineage, we can begin to crave what feels lacking in our lives - a deep, quiet void that cannot be filled with consumption, trends, or borrowed identities.

Here is the hard truth many avoid: The thinking, beliefs, and behaviors that created the problems of today cannot be the same ones that create something new.

But what does it say about us when we continuously accept the scraps of life, love, and energy?

Perhaps true peace begins not in the world, but in the individual willing to stop fighting - even for just one breath - and see the other not as an enemy, but as a mirror.

To let go is to embrace all that comes from loving deeply. And in that surrender - in that movement through evolution - there is strength, there is hope, and there is the unending rhythm of life itself, always calling us to keep moving forward.

But somewhere along the way, the world decides it needs to shape us - to make sense of us, to fit us neatly into boxes so it can teach, manage, and explain what it doesn’t understand.

Life wasn’t meant to be this way. Parenting wasn’t meant to be done alone. Families were never meant to fracture this much.

To go against nature is to go against ourselves. For the same current that turns seed to tree flows through our very veins.

Over the past decades, we’ve villainized men - devalued their role in the family, labeled them broken or unnecessary, even dangerous. And in doing so, we’ve pushed them further out of the homes where they are needed most. But fathers are not optional. They are essential - just as mothers are. Children need both roots and wings, and it takes the balance of mother and father, masculine and feminine, to give them that.