Are you too easy or too hard on yourself? Are you loving or hateful? How do those around you influence these conversations?

Even the most steadfast pacifist would agree there is a time and place for a righteous beat-down.

I knew I wasn’t done powerlifting, not by a long shot, but something needed to change.

We are two different people and his experiences will not be the same as mine; they will be his own. I want SO badly for him to not to go through the things I did, that it’s taken me a long time to see that he won’t.