Resisting Being Saved

Often we need to push through on our own.

This is part of Valero Doval’s Pinneal Variations Series—Valero did the art for my podcast and for my book cover.

We’ve all heard the metaphor of the butterfly—that in order to evolve we must devolve into goo in the chrysalis—but I thought the passage below, from the late Debbie Ford’s Spiritual Divorce, was a really beautiful take. (And no, I’m not gett…