by Jermaine | Jun 30, 2011 | My Story
I still feel lonely at times. After all, I’ve had decades of habits that kept me from living the life I want. I have decades of cultivated mechanisms that have held me back. I’m an expert in holding myself back. It’s taking some time to break...
by Jermaine | Jun 30, 2011 | My Story
I cannot tell you how many times I have fallen prey to the “I don’t feel ready” syndrome. You know it. The one where you think you need to feel ready before you take action? …I often introduce my students to books and reading that is well...
by Jermaine | Jun 30, 2011 | My Story
What to do when emotions hijack you? There I was, feeling a renewed since of power in my life. Then, a few drinks, a few old memories, and BAM…freakout. Check this out. A month out from the GetReal program I have begun challenging myself more and opening up to...
by Jermaine | Jun 28, 2016 | My Story
Of many of the insights from GetReal, one in particular has been the most useful for me. The idea is simple: Acceptance without action is information; Action without acceptance is hard work. This insight hit me like a ton of bricks when I read it, then it crept up...
by Jermaine | May 15, 2016 | My Story
…Not one day goes by, it seems, that I do not feel some kind of loneliness. Right now as I write this, I’m feeling lonely. The larger desire here is obviously “connection.” But what I have found is that when I feel like this, it is because I am taking something else...
by Jermaine | Jul 1, 2016 | My Story
One of the biggest struggles that come from building a life that pursues, relentlessly, my own freedom, a life that does not wait for others to give me permission to take actions my body desires, is finding others who also live like this, that is, on their own terms....
