The Cooke Group, LLC

08/10/2025

I am in the process of kicking off a program sharing and celebrating the passion, challenges and insights of the living the desired life. Join me here!

08/07/2025

You were so confident back then.”
That’s what someone told me at my high school reunion.
Funny… I remembered feeling invisible, not enough, out of place.
Turns out, the story I told myself wasn’t the whole story.
This reflection is about the quiet power of rewriting our inner narrative—and reclaiming who we really are.

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08/05/2025

We all have beliefs. They guide us, shape us, and feel deeply true—until they don’t.

But truth is different. It stands on evidence. It welcomes scrutiny. It doesn’t require everyone else’s agreement to be valid.

This reflection explores the difference between belief and truth, the harm that can come from blurring the two, and how to live with humility, responsibility, and freedom. Living Rogue means honoring your truth—without needing it to become someone else’s.

https://thedavidcooke.substack.com/p/when-belief-isnt-truth

07/29/2025

Sharing my most recent post on substack...

Becoming more authentic brought clarity, freedom, and energy, and a quiet kind of loneliness I didn’t expect.

This reflection explores the honest space between old belonging and the new life I’m learning to live.

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07/22/2025

Sharing my latest post on practicing love and acceptance...

We live in a world where judgment feels easier than curiosity—and difference too often leads to dismissal. But what if the people we resist seeing clearly are the very ones that hold the mirror to our own growth?

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07/20/2025

07/20/2025

Out for ice cream with my buddies and the people they live with, lol. Plus, a quick visit inside the fire truck in the parking lot.

07/15/2025

What if the only thing standing between you and a more joyful life is the permission you’re still waiting for? This reflection invites you to release the rules that drain you—and choose yourself instead.

Link to the reflection is in my profile.

07/13/2025

Truth! The key is making a commitment to sit and listen, instead of criticizing, judging or shaming. You can't understand until you know, you can only know when you learn, you can only learn when you truly listen. Empathy emerges when ones heart, eats, and mind are open.

07/10/2025

In a time when differences often define us, What Binds Us Still is a heartfelt reminder of the quiet power of connection. Sparked by the experience of a 50th high school reunion, this reflection explores what happens when we stop performing and simply show up—grateful for shared history, open to mutual respect, and grounded in what we still have in common. A gentle meditation on belonging, memory, and choosing connection over division.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thedavidcooke/p/what-binds-us-matters-most?r=1yx01w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

07/08/2025

We live in a world that teaches us to strive, fix, and perform. But what if the truth is
simpler—and deeper? What if you don’t need to be fixed? What if you were never broken?

Link to my most recent article is in my profile