If I am dedicated to creating more joy and abundance for others, I have to recognize how my own attachment to suffering and a scarcity mindset were antithetical to what I was working to achieve. For me, violence prevention work is grounded in a belief and a hope in our capacity- individually and collectively- to heal and make real and lasting change. I cannot facilitate change if I have not allowed myself to experience it. I cannot cultivate the possibility of joy for others if I don’t think I deserve to feel it.