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How Behaving Like Children Can Help Us Become Better Adults

Posted on July 18, 2022July 18, 2022

Tapping into our inner child can help free our rigid adult minds. When we were born, we were tiny, blank slates that were yearning to experience this amazing journey called life. Our minds were free — free from anxiety, fear, self-doubt, excessive anger, addiction, shame, negativity, and that feeling that we’re not good enough. We Read More

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Why Getting What You Want Can Kill Your Biggest Dreams

Posted on May 8, 2022

Sometimes getting what you want stops you from reaching your full potential. Image by Karyme Franca on Pexels Have you ever wondered what you could’ve achieved if you’d taken a different path in life? Most humans tend to either take the path of least resistance or do something that requires work, but not a LOT Read More

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7 Life Lessons from a Dying Young Woman

Posted on September 21, 2021November 24, 2021

Life is short - stop spending too much time focusing on the little things. Holly Butcher was like many twenty-somethings. At 26, she dreamed of creating a fulfilling life with her partner, having kids, and growing old. Her dreams were shattered in October of 2016 when she found out she had stage 4 cancer. She had advanced Ewings Read More

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How I Forgave the Abusive Dad I Hated

Posted on July 26, 2021November 24, 2021

I have a lot of wonderful childhood memories of my dad. When I was a young boy, he’d drive us to a small country store several times a week. I’d play outside the store, under the shade of a big oak tree, while my dad sat in his van. He slowly drank his beer to Read More

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5 Signs You’re Settling for Less Than What You Deserve

Posted on June 23, 2021June 23, 2021

Photo by Alex Green on Pexels How many times have you said you weren’t going to settle — and then you settled? If I had $10 for every time I said I wouldn’t settle and then settled, I’d have enough money for a car. A nice car. Not an “ok” car I’m just settling for. I’ve settled Read More

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How Losing Everything in Prison Helped Me Create a Better Life

Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021

“In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.” — Buddha On a scorching hot day in Folsom state prison, a guard passed me a note thru the bars of my cell. It said “Your mom is in the hospital.” Read More

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The Far-reaching Benefits of Kindness

Posted on January 10, 2021January 10, 2021

Cheryl was a beautiful and friendly prostitute who regularly stayed at The Crest Motel, a seedy, oftentimes violent establishment that my mom managed for seven long years in Vallejo, California. Cheryl liked me because I was a harmless 11-year-old boy who would never hurt her, unlike other males in her life. I sometimes saw her Read More

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6 Life Lessons I Learned From Being in Prison

Posted on December 2, 2020December 2, 2020

In 1997, I found myself in “Old Folsom,” a violent maximum-security prison in northern California. Even though I’d been a drug dealer and grew up in violent environments, I still had to endure the learning curve of prison. Being in prison for the first time is like being thrown into a swimming pool that has Read More

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6 Life-changing Lessons I Learned From Falling in Love

Posted on October 27, 2020November 2, 2020

You can learn a lot from past relationships if you’re willing to look beyond the pain. 1996 was one of the craziest, most turbulent years of my life. I’d recently learned I was adopted. I was facing a prison sentence for my illegal drug manufacturing-related crimes. And for the first time in my life, I Read More

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6 Powerful Ways to Care Less About What Others Think About You

Posted on September 27, 2020September 28, 2020

Care about peoples’ approval, and you will always be their prisoner. – Lao Tzu There’s a lot of valuable advice that we should listen to. There are also a lot of comments that we should ignore because they senselessly bring us down instead of lift us up. That social media post got 185 positive reactions, Read More

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