We live in a world addicted to polish. A world that says healing should be fast, that growth should be linear and that wholeness is something you finally achieve, then post about. But the truth is far messier, and far more beautiful. Wholeness isn’t about becoming flawless. It’s about learning to live fully, honestly, and tenderly in the presence of our cracks.
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I am a chronic apologizer.
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For the last couple of years, I’ve been having teaching dreams most nights. Some frame the same lessons in different stage dressing, showing how application of principles can change. Some nights dreams may revisit past views or simply give me recess time to unwind my mind.
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There is nothing wrong with you for folding in on yourself—not then, and not now. But if you feel a quiet longing to breathe deeper, speak more truth, or take up just a little more space… that longing is not selfish. It’s your aliveness calling you back.
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I personally prefer to go to the roots of the problem of thinking. Dialectical thinking is useful, in my view, for the resolution of life choices. Yet it stays at the surface of confused thinking. RFT goes deeper into how mistakes in thinking are produced and stored. It’s more like the psychology of the underlying tendencies in Buddhist thought.
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