
I want to talk about something that’s real close in. Judging the crap out of yourself and over achieving to meet someone’s impossibly high standards. I think this is a difficult topic for a few reasons: One, because having a high standard and hard work ethic are rewarded in our society. And two, having…

I’m a social worker and the population I work with is the chronically homeless. This means they’ve been homeless for 5 years or longer. Before I worked with this population I viewed them mostly as lost causes. They seemed to me so mentally ill that there wasn’t anyway for them to come back. Or…