You Don’t Need to Resolve All Your Traumas to Change

Sometimes, the urge to go deep and understand the unconscious forces shaping your present reality can stall you

Desert Project by Lorena Assisi

One lesson I’ve learned is that we’re all just one bad decision away from absolutely wrecking our lives. This notion is neither pretty nor new. Yet it became ingrained in me when I was forced—really, blessed—to attend recovery meetings. There I shared space with, and cried on the shoulders of, fellow addicts, manslaughter …