Category Soul

Normally when we think of exercise we picture exertion. We think of runners or weight lifting, the face that says, “Oh my god, I’m going to die.” Or, “I hate this so much.”

But did you know that the extreme forms of exercise are not only unnecessary but are often detrimental?

I love to exercise. I love extreme exercise. I’m all for pushing my body to its limits and reaping the benefits of hardcover workouts.

However, as I grow, age and learn, I’m discovering that most humans are either underdoing it or overdoing it. And rarely is there an in-between.

While dealing with new hormonal weight gain, something beyond my control, I have discovered that I was tending to overdo things and it was having the opposite effects of what I wanted.

It was while doing this research that I disc...

One would think it would be easier to not get lost on a one-way street. Fewer options, fewer choices, fewer ways to get confused and not make it to your destination, right?

Ironically, no.

Not only have I managed to get lost on physical one-way streets . . . I find it much easier to get lost in one-way street relationships.

It always starts out well . . . or so I think at the moment. It always takes hindsight for me to see that the relationship, friendship or romantic, was never two-way. Was never healthy. And was, in fact, toxic.

I recently experienced this moment. Not with a romantic partner, but with someone I thought was a good friend.

He’d always been there for me when others were not. He was also the one who helped me during one of my hardest moments.

But after learning that he ...