Fear follows me almost every day of my life. I’ve read book after book about it, and I have practiced several different methods to conquer it. So how do you get over fear? This is the big secret. Ready? You don’t. You never get over it. It’s always there no matter what you do. Some people advise...

A little while ago, I wrote an article about critical thinking where I advocated that people question everything they read. This spurred my thinking in a different direction. How can I describe the way I’ve achieved success in overcoming some of the debilitating mental health issues I’ve faced? What...

Okay, a lot of interesting things happened this week. I have relearned a good lesson. I took a job I didn’t want and felt unmotivated, pissed off, and exhausted. I was entering into the same old cycle of bullshit that I had been suffered through in previous jobs. I was promised advancement, promotion,...

There are two writers inside of me. The fearless one who says exactly what he wants and the nice and amiable one who says half of what he wants. Now the fearless one says some real bullshit sometimes and needs to be edited down, but every now and I let go and find myself writing something that makes...

As I embarked on the mission of controlling my mind, I came across hundreds of methods of controlling fear. Some work, some don’t. I think the basic thing, the one that connects them all, is the idea of exposure. If you are afraid of something you expose yourself to it again and again until the fear...

Some writers argue that the very plethora of self-help books is proof that they don’t work. Why, they say, would people keep writing them in the first place if they really solved problems? Over 45,000 self-help books were released in 2020 and it continues to be one of the fastest growing nonfiction categories....

Most people know how it feels to abandon an opportunity because of fear. They know the shame that comes in the aftermath of that choice. They wish they could have been a little stronger or a little more courageous. Sometimes it’s okay to choose the easier and safer path. We can’t always make the brave...

“May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” –J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring What is true darkness like? Not literal darkness, but the darkness of the mind, where all light and color drain from your world and you are left only with the sense of...