The Sacred Practice of Becoming Through Showing Up
There’s a point in every man’s life where he has to face himself—not the version he shows the world, but the one he hides behind anger, performance, toughness, or silence. I hit that point hard. Not once, but several times. Each time, life stripped away another layer of ego until I had no choice but to sit with the truth of who I was and who I wasn’t. And somewhere in that mess—in the shame, the heartbreak, the therapy sessions and the sleepless nights—I finally began to find the man underneath. This is the story of that journey. Not a victory lap, not a confession—just the honest path of a man learning to be fierce without being cruel, gentle without being passive, kind without abandoning himself, and whole enough to love without fear. 1. The First Cracks When I was in my early twenties, I had a quiet conversation with my then sister-in-law that ended up being one of the most important of my entire life. We had just spent two weeks with her, her husband, and their newborn daughte...
