Tetrault's Corner

02/11/2026

OWN YOUR S**T

You guys, for serious, it’s very important that you learn how to own your s**t. At some point in your life, you really have to get honest about the weirdest and most damaged and most broken parts of your existence, and take responsibility for it all...lovingly, but unblinkingly.

You gotta know your own crazy. Can’t own your s**t without knowing your crazy.

For many years, I didn’t own my s**t because I didn’t KNOW my s**t. If you don’t know your s**t, people, then that s**t will control you and make your life into Crazy Town. Until you own your s**t, all you do is make excuses for the madness that is always surrounding you, while throwing blame around like confetti.

By this point in my life, though, I know the worst of me. I know the triggers that make me into a temporarily insane person. I know my vulnerabilities and my pride. I know the stuff that makes me want to deceive, and the stuff that makes me vindictive, and the stuff that makes me insecure, and the stuff that makes me just flat-out mean and ugly. And I definitely know all my demons by their first names.

This is what therapy does — helps you to learn your s**t, inside and out. This is what meditation is for. This is what recovery is for. This is what reconciling the contradictions of your life is for. This is what radical honesty is for. This is what the courage of truthful introspection is for.

Owning your s**t begins to happen the moment you finally recognize that the common denominator in all your biggest problems is YOU.

Not them: YOU.

It’s a beautiful, humbling, necessary realization. It’s an education. It’s painful. It’s the beginning of adulthood. It’s pretty much the definition of maturity.

And then you take a deep breath and say, “OK, I admit it. It’s me. That’s my crazy s**t. I own it. Now what?”

Then, the work begins

Own your s**t with love and perspective and self-compassion...but definitely own it.

Don’t worry if other people are owning their s**t or not. That isn’t your problem. Just own yours. Keep your side of the street clean and honest, and rest of it is none of your business.

Just be honest and real.

ONWARD!


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Slowly but surely... 🙏

02/02/2025

"The total number of minds in the Universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings. This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole.” ~Erwin Schrödinger, physicist

"All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind. It is like a boundless void which can't be fathomed or measured. It is only necessary to awake to the One Mind, and there is nothing whatsoever to attain. This is the real Buddha. This pure Mind, the source of everything, shines forever and on all with the brilliance of its own perfection. Above, below and around you, all is spontaneously existing, for there is nowhere which is outside the Buddha Mind." ~Huang Po, Zen patriarch

"I like to experience the Universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified." ~Albert Einstein

"Billions of years ago, you were a big bang.. you're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something at the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. But we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it. And so a basic problem we've got to go through is to understand that there are no separate things, or separate events. If you can understand this you're gonna have no further problems." ~Alan Watts

You Are the Big Bang - Alan Watts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDmvev6JOP0

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As the sun sets, take a moment to watch, breathe, and let go. By connecting with the serene beauty of the sunset, you can cultivate a sense of calm and contentment as you transition into the evening hours.

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You are the magician🧚🏻‍♀️