Realities of Relationships: Staying Soft When Everything Feels Hard

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This week, we’re spending time with my new friend Charaia Callabrass. Every now and then, I get to do interviews that flow so easily, almost always creating something incredibly valuable. This is one of those times.

I hit record when we were already in-depth about our fiction reads and how they actually inform and equip us to reach people better. Then we go into the real reason I reached to her: I wish someone would’ve told me how easy it is to harden your heart. How easy it is to grab on to your preferences and sacrifice anyone and anything at the altar of what I want or think is most right.

As we kick off Realities of Relationships, Charaia and I talk about what her heart has been for since she started sharing her writing a couple years ago. How do we stay soft in a really hard world? How do we approach conversations that could be triggering with a soft heart and open hands? And how do we come back from deep pain caused by people we love the most?

So, here we are, learning how to be courageously soft together.