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…

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.

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.

It is often difficult to define me. To place me neatly into a category that makes “normal” sense to this linear world. When people ask, “So, what do you do?”  I often chuckle, not out of confusion but out of good humor - because, truly, that is a good question. What do I “do”? When I think back to childhood, I remember how often adults asked that same question in a different form: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” My answer then, and still now, is honest - I don’t kn

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.

We need defenders and protectors. We need nurturers and healers. Just as much as we need shelter and structure. No more, no less than we need food and water.

We often imagine the warrior’s journey as one of blood, sweat, and sacrifice—clashing swords, broken shields, relentless battles. But the truest battles rarely take place on battlefields. They happen inside our hearts. And perhaps the greatest fight any of us will ever face is the fight to be unconditionally loved.