by Jack Adam Weber | Jan 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
As children, many of us were shamed or condemned for being wrong or not knowing. With that shame, a wound forms, usually a core wound. As adults, we carry that shame when we are wrong. If we are afraid to feel that shame, we may try to never be wrong. More often, we...
by Jack Adam Weber | Dec 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Honesty is a muscle we have to exercise, or we lose it. It takes work to be honest because many factors work against honesty as a default response. Being honest especially requires emotional resilience, because what’s true is often not easy to stomach. In this...
by Jack Adam Weber | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Each morning I practice tai chi chuan (“tai chi” exercise), I first engage some qi gong warm-ups. Then, before practice, I do the salutation to the form. The salutation itself is beautiful and meaningful, as one fist joins an open palm (Yang within Yin) and they...
by Jack Adam Weber | May 24, 2025 | Featured
An excerpt from my new book, The Deep Work: Psychology professor and researcher, Dr. Alan Fogel, shares that “over the course of evolution, our bodies decided to take the economic route and use a single neural system to detect and feel pain, regardless of whether it...
by Jack Adam Weber | May 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
We live in a toxically fix-it culture. By which I mean we try to fix everything, which ironically and tragically, breaks us. Emotional injury is a prime example of injury that cannot be healed by an aggressive, fix-it model. In an emotionally illiterate culture, this...
