The process

man journaling for emotional regulation after betrayal by wife

Logging Before Reacting: The Simple Practice That Gave Me My Power Back

I didn’t get my power back through a breakthrough. There was no single conversation, no moment of clarity, no morning I woke up and felt the weight lift. That’s not how it worked. What happened was smaller and less dramatic and, in the end, far more durable than any breakthrough would have been. I started […]

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man sitting still detached emotionally from wife

How I Learned to Treat Emotions Like Data, Not Commands

MyStory, The process

For the first few weeks after I found out, my emotions ran me. That’s the only honest way to describe it. I wasn’t experiencing emotions, they were happening to me, through me, without much input from the part of me that could think clearly. Rage that arrived without warning in the middle of conversations about

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