Cissy

This essay is the first in a series on why turning towards what activates us is the path to setting ourselves free. The rest of the series will feature modalities & tools for working with our triggers and welcoming suppressed emotions. Turning inward — taking our shadows, insecurities, and relationship...

Growing up, I had a fraught relationship with ambition. My deepest fear was not fulfilling my potential. To paraphrase Paul Graham in his Cities & Ambitions, I was one of those ambitious kids who possessed ambition that seemed to precede anything specific to be ambitious about. I just knew I...