This was one of the most honest and powerful things I’ve read in a long time. So much of what you wrote felt like a mirror—compassionate, but also impossible to ignore. The line “You built the walls, and you hold the key” hit especially hard.
I’ve been sitting in that space between knowing and actually doing for a while, and this was the exact reminder I needed: no one else can walk that bridge for me.
Thank you for your honesty, and for the way you speak truth with so much heart. That’s what makes your words not just resonate—but stay.
This is so on point. I can see what I want and need but that is my “road less traveled” and it’s fucking hard. I can see the place of stagnation too. The trick is to no longer accept the trap of complacency and familiar hell. Time to put in the work for my unfamiliar heaven…
I need to stop sabotaging my recovery. I keep hurting myself with overworking and overeating to shove down the uncomfortable emotions. I can’t keep doing this. It’s up to me to make the effort to change.
“You need to walk across that bridge… to witness yourself do it.” That line. That’s the one.
I spent decades helping leaders build bridges. Between silos, between strategy and behavior, between who they said they were and how they actually showed up. Now I build different bridges. Literal ones, like crossing new countries. Figurative ones too - between fear and freedom, between old patterns and the life waiting on the other side.
My work has changed, but the question underneath it is the same: Are you willing to cross?
You don’t have to be fearless to do it. You just have to start walking.
👉 You Don’t Have to Be Fearless to Retire Early and Travel
Great article. I am trying to change more than I have already. Fear of failure is a huge problem for me. And I overeat to stuff down my emotions and anxiety.
Thank you so much for putting this into words 🫶🏻
Hi Mark,
This was one of the most honest and powerful things I’ve read in a long time. So much of what you wrote felt like a mirror—compassionate, but also impossible to ignore. The line “You built the walls, and you hold the key” hit especially hard.
I’ve been sitting in that space between knowing and actually doing for a while, and this was the exact reminder I needed: no one else can walk that bridge for me.
Thank you for your honesty, and for the way you speak truth with so much heart. That’s what makes your words not just resonate—but stay.
Thanks so much Baran! Excited for you to exit that space between… so liberating!
This resonates to me so deeply to my core. I felt goosebumps in my gut reading you. Wow. Thank You thank You, Mark!
I am almost finished with your book Liberated Love. I now understand why I have been overeating and buying too many things! I need to feel
the grief. I thought I had years ago but what I am reading seems to tell me no. I want to
feel all the grief, pain and hurt again and move on? I want to continue to read about the 5 gates of grief.
Keep opening and keep allowing it to move through you! You’re doing great!
Thanks! I am journaling as I read this book. It helps. Day 2 of not overeating. No sugar and very little carbs.
Thanks
So good Mark - thank you
This is so on point. I can see what I want and need but that is my “road less traveled” and it’s fucking hard. I can see the place of stagnation too. The trick is to no longer accept the trap of complacency and familiar hell. Time to put in the work for my unfamiliar heaven…
I need to stop sabotaging my recovery. I keep hurting myself with overworking and overeating to shove down the uncomfortable emotions. I can’t keep doing this. It’s up to me to make the effort to change.
willingness + ownership = growth and evolution
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
“You need to walk across that bridge… to witness yourself do it.” That line. That’s the one.
I spent decades helping leaders build bridges. Between silos, between strategy and behavior, between who they said they were and how they actually showed up. Now I build different bridges. Literal ones, like crossing new countries. Figurative ones too - between fear and freedom, between old patterns and the life waiting on the other side.
My work has changed, but the question underneath it is the same: Are you willing to cross?
You don’t have to be fearless to do it. You just have to start walking.
👉 You Don’t Have to Be Fearless to Retire Early and Travel
See you on the other side.
I am trying to be brave. Tiny steps and loving myself more is helping.
Great writing on this! Thanks
i have never felt so seen this gives me so much motivation
Thank you for sharing this amazing piece 👍
Thank you for sharing these words. These have cut straight to the heart and what I needed to hear this week ❤️✨
Great article. I am trying to change more than I have already. Fear of failure is a huge problem for me. And I overeat to stuff down my emotions and anxiety.
Whoa!!! This one hit close to home. Creating the curiosity and will power to
witness who I am and what my life feels like on the other side of the bridge!! The bridge feels and looks like an Indiana Jones bridge for me.