After almost a month away, I’m back — and in this episode I’m talking honestly about where I’ve been.

Over the past few weeks, Keith and I have been navigating a flooded basement that turned into a major reconstruction project, weeks without heat and running water, and the anticipatory grief of learning that our cat Gus has cancer.

But this episode isn’t really about the logistics of a hard month. It’s about what came up underneath it all.

I talk about the old beliefs that resurfaced immediately, the nervous system responses that got loud fast, and the difference between knowing the work intellectually and trying to live it in real time when life genuinely falls apart. I also talk about:

• asking for help
• boundaries
• the guilt of stepping back
• the pressure to keep performing okayness
• an ...