<< The Monster Inside You >>
I’ve spent most of my life trying to be the “nice guy.” Helpful. Agreeable. Always giving.
Brandon showed me where that road leads to: a lifeless marriage, an uninspiring life, and bottled-up rage that leaks out as porn, overeating, or passive aggression.
So I’m learning to understand and even appreciate the aggression inside of me.
At first it feels destructive. But I’m realizing it only feels that way because I suppress it. The moment I accept it and own it, it shifts. That same energy becomes fuel...to create, to have hard conversations, to fail and keep going.
As Brandon says: “Better to be a monster trained into peace than a man known to be nice but who's never felt his true power.”
What surprised me most is how my wife responds. I thought this energy would scare her. But she actually feels safer when she senses my power...steady, present, not too high or too low.
