So I was on a call with a client the other day and we were talking about a relationship

challenge that he was having with his wife.

And he was talking about wanting to make some change within their relationship,

have some conversations about the lack of sex that they had been having and the sexual

disconnection that they had been experiencing.

And he was basically asking me the question,

how can I fix this without being rejected?

How can I fix this and not deal with the resistance

that I feel towards having to have these conversations

because they're uncomfortable?

And my response to him was,

you need to start to take your vitamin to him was, you need to start to take

your vitamin R. Like, you need to learn how to metabolize rejection and resistance. These are absolutely

crucial pieces. The truth is that we have began to live in a culture and a society that has told us that

things should be easier than they are.

And we've been indoctrinated into this idea that you can create growth, you can create change,

you can transform yourself in this magical ethereal way without having to face rejection,

without having to experience the deep resistance that comes along with change.

The truth is that if you want to better yourself in any way, shape, or form, you are inevitably at some

place along your journey going to experience rejection, because you're going to be stepping

out of the known territory of your comfort zone. And with that comes a tremendous amount of resistance. Why? Because our brains

are literally wired to do that. Our brains are designed to do basically two things. One, they're a

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