This week I hosted a virtual writing workshop for the Family Systems Institute in Sydney, Australia. I made the case for handwriting, for slowing down our thinking in a world that wants us to outsource our own minds. Handwriting is a sensory experience that activates more regions of the brain than typing. And the more effort you put into processing information, the better you remember it. A slower pace forces you to think about what you’re writing, and how you’re synthesizing your ideas. Similarly, the long way is sometimes the better way in our relationships. But we want the borrowed thinking from the expert. We want the quick fix, so we put an intense focus on the marriage or the child or the bad habit to resolve our immediate discomfort. It’s difficult to shift the focus to other relationships or take the time to develop and lean into our own best thinking. Here are some examples of where I think the long way could be the better way in our relationship challenges. (Free folks, see you next week.)... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to The Anxious Overachiever to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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petak, 20. veljače 2026.
What if the Long Way Is the Best Way?
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