relationships

  • 2025: A Beautifully Complex Journey, Part 2

    If the first part of 2025 softened me, the months that followed asked me to show up. From June to December, most of my lessons came through my work. Through decisions I didn’t feel fully ready for, through moments of doubt and quiet wins no one really sees from the outside. This was the season…

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  • Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by the Arbinger Institute

    Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by the Arbinger Institute is a thought-provoking book that explores how individuals can overcome self-deception to become more effective leaders and improve relationships in both personal and professional contexts. The book’s central premise is that people often fall into a “box” of self-deception, where they see others…

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  • The Dance of Emotions in H. Lerner’s Books

    Harriet Lerner’s trilogy—The Dance of Intimacy, The Dance of Anger, and The Dance of Fear—delves into the intricate emotional dances we engage in within relationships, exploring how we navigate intimacy, anger, and fear. Each book, while focusing on a different core emotion, shares Lerner’s signature style: accessible, compassionate, and practical, with deep psychological insight. In…

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  • Rising Strong, by BrenĂ© Brown

    It’s been a while since I read a book that impressed me as much as Rising Strong. I have wandered for too long in the land of: accept your emotions, all of them. People can be bad and good, and you choose whether to confront them or not. I never saw the shore, in a…

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