How Friendship Helped This Veteran to Heal

In January 2011, after struggling with unstable housing for three years, I received good news: an offer from a childhood friend to move into a room in his apartment in Manhattan. Michael knew about the sharp downward turn my life had taken since my honorable discharge from the Navy in 2008. I was a skilled […]

Silent Storms: How Mindfulness Helped Me Reclaim My Self-Worth

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” ~Jon Kabat-Zinn We often hear about storms as powerful forces of nature, but for many of us, the most intense storms are the silent ones—those we battle internally. For me, this storm took the shape of bullying. While I appeared to handle the daily […]