Send us a text Family doesn’t come with instructions, and neither do in-laws. We open up about the moments that almost derailed our trust—a sleep training text that landed like a judgment, a missed message that morphed into rejection—and how we pulled those threads back to the real issue: assumptions dressed up as facts. From the funny detours (holiday gift debates and the legend of drunk Uncle Roger) to the tender stuff (protecting your spouse when a parent crosses a line), we walk through t...
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Send us a text Family doesn’t come with instructions, and neither do in-laws. We open up about the moments that almost derailed our trust—a sleep training text that landed like a judgment, a missed message that morphed into rejection—and how we pulled those threads back to the real issue: assumptions dressed up as facts. From the funny detours (holiday gift debates and the legend of drunk Uncle Roger) to the tender stuff (protecting your spouse when a parent crosses a line), we walk through t...
The Solitude Paradox: How Being Alone Makes You Better Together
Baggage Claim
53 minutes
1 month ago
The Solitude Paradox: How Being Alone Makes You Better Together
Send us a text What happens when you finally turn the volume down on the world and sit with your own thoughts? We crack open The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter and dive into an uncomfortable truth: many of us would literally rather take an electric shock than face the noise in our heads. That stat becomes our entry point to a bigger conversation about why intentional solitude is not the enemy of connection—it’s the training ground for it. We unpack the difference between loneliness and sol...
Baggage Claim
Send us a text Family doesn’t come with instructions, and neither do in-laws. We open up about the moments that almost derailed our trust—a sleep training text that landed like a judgment, a missed message that morphed into rejection—and how we pulled those threads back to the real issue: assumptions dressed up as facts. From the funny detours (holiday gift debates and the legend of drunk Uncle Roger) to the tender stuff (protecting your spouse when a parent crosses a line), we walk through t...
