Relationships & Community

You are living in two worlds simultaneously. In one world — the corporate job, the established career, the professional identity that’s served you for…

You know exactly how you got here. You can trace the pattern: the growing list of things you said yes to, the shrinking space…

You can handle a lot. Uncertainty in your business. Criticism of your work. Difficult clients. Personal setbacks. Most things you navigate with reasonable equanimity.

For years, I treated boundaries as something I needed to perform. As if becoming a person who could hold limits and have direct conversations…

Under every behavioral pattern is a self-concept. And the self-concept is harder to change than the behavior — because it’s the lens through which…

Not all insights are equal. Some produce interesting thoughts. Others reorganize the entire landscape.

There’s a moment in this work where the focus shifts from “how do I communicate better” to something more fundamental. That moment is when…

The popular conversation about limits and direct communication contains certain truths. It also leaves a lot unsaid. Here’s what tends to get left out.

There are two broad approaches to working with limit patterns and difficult conversation avoidance. Both are widely used. One produces durable change. The other…