I don't control the storm. I control how I show up.

The second thing I had to learn was where my control actually was.

There are some things I do not have control over. Being abused was one of them.

There are some things I absolutely have control over. How I show up is one of them.

It sounds simple written down. It was not simple to learn, and I learned it young because I had to.

People who work with me notice fairly quickly that I can show up steady in pretty much any storm. That isn’t temperament. It is a decision I made as a kid and have kept making since.