You’re suicidal. Yes, I said it. You ’re suicidal. You’re suicidal every time you remain quiet. You ’re suicidal when you stay silent in your relationships. At the doctor’s office. With your family and friends. At work. Even with yourself. Now that I have your attention, let me tell you what this is really about: silence. We do not talk about silence the way we talk about death. But silence has killed more people than suicide ever has. Silence is the slow version. The everyday version. The...

We walk through life loaded. Not with guns. With emotions we never learned how to feel. Most of us were never taught how to talk about what we carry. We were taught how to conceal it. Swallow it. Dress it up. Smile through it. Silence it. And call that strength. But concealed emotions do not disappear. They sit in the body like ammunition. All it takes is the right trigger, at the wrong time, with the right person, and suddenly everything we hid becomes a weapon. Emotions and Feelings...

“It’s genetics.” That’s our favorite cliché. We use it when we don’t want to do the necessary work on ourselves. When we don’t want to slow down long enough to ask the real questions. When we need a quick explanation for patterns we’ve been living with our entire lives. High blood pressure? Genetics. Depression? Genetics. Anxiety? Genetics. Addiction, anger, diabetes, silence, scarcity? Genetics. We treat it like a medical fact when in reality it’s often the most convenient excuse we have for...