I was having a conversation with my BFF Tricia Barrett recently, and I found myself asking this question, “Can you shine your light and be pure in your integrity and still experience love and belonging?” I know it’s a strange question. But I’ve identified a big limiting belief in my life, so I spent the past day exploring it. It’s Lonely At The “Top” As a young person, I lived from a place of what I considered very high integrity. I didn’t drink until I was 21. I never tried drugs. I didn’t lose my virginity until years after others had. I didn’t break laws. I made straight A’s. I came home in time for curfew. I didn’t...

A recent study reported that 1 in 5 American adults takes at least one psychiatric drug to treat depression and/or anxiety, a 22% increase since 2001. Do you get what this means? This means that in an office of 100 people, 20 of them – enough to form an entire department – will be on medication. In the average family of 2 parents and 2 1/2 kids, one of them will eventually take psychiatric drugs. At your next high school reunion of 1000 graduates, 200 of them will be on mind-altering drugs. Isn’t that shocking? And yet, this doesn’t surprise me one bit. Back when I was seeing 40 patients a day...