Author: TDB

We know that self-awareness is important, but how do you develop it? And, what’s the use?

Springtime feels magical. Wet earth, an awakening. Blustery winds make quick work of drying up soccer fields, knee-high in winters debris. Glorious sunshine filters through rough branches just beginning to bud. An explosion of blossoms permeates the town with the fragrance of new love and new life and call us to leave the confines of our winter slumber to trust and venture out into the open once more.

Personal development and spiritual growth happens when you begin to laugh at yourself, accept your...

If you meet the darkest moment of life, move valiantly through it with courage and never retreat, for you shall be greeted with light after the darkest of moments.

Being “comfortable” in the middle is somewhat of a fairy tale, at least that’s what my own experience has shown.  What does that actually mean?  I struggled for years (more like decades) with this concept.  Living in the proverbial “middle”.  Thriving in the space that is neither too far left or right.  Often for many moments my efforts felt like failing in the middle.