The real story of Empathi begins with the children of two broken homes who grew up feeling so much abandonment, rejection, shame, and fear… that they'd given up on making love work long before they met.
Over and over, Teale and I recreated those experiences from our childhood in our relationships.
I remember walking on a beach in San Francisco with my mother and telling her, "I'm sorry. I am never going to make you a grandmother."
I felt so deeply not enough, and Teale was so convinced that she was too much, that a happy, fulfilling relationship seemed like a fairytale.