Hearing Out Life Drama Blog

I was in graduate school taking a course on creativity when one day, our professor had us play musical chairs.

It came down to the last two people. The music stopped, and as one student went to sit down, the other moved the chair. The student crashe...

This morning, someone responded to one of my offers with, “Oh yeah, charge people for their struggles… that’ll help.” It got under my skin. Not in a dramatic way, but in that quiet, lingering way where your mind keeps returning to it. There was a sti...

Failure is often seen as something to be avoided at all costs, a word loaded with negative connotations.

When we even hear the word, we feel uncomfortable. Many of us are conditioned to believe that failure is a sign of inadequacy, but what if we sh...

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There’s something coming up in my life right now that I know is going to be hard.

Not because I don’t want to be there—but because I care so deeply.

I’m going to need to sh...

Mistakes happen in every family.

A forgotten assignment. A broken object. A chore that didn’t get done. A plan that falls apart at the last minute.

No matter how organized or careful we try to be, something will eventually go wrong. The real questi...

“Let’s all smash clay pots together in our minds. Picture this: we’re on a large, open slab of concrete in a calm, scenic place. Surrounding us are hundreds of clay pots, and we’re all allowed to smash as many as we want. GO!”  

This might sound lik...