I've been silent about why I'm no longer teaching GLC. A series of events has prompted me to start sharing now. The short answer is that I was put in a position where continuing to teach would have made me a hypocrite.
The long answer is that early this year, I was told that some people I worked with were offended by something I said or did. But their identities were withheld, so I couldn’t apologize. I asked for names. I asked for the chance to reconcile. That chance was denied.
I couldn’t keep teaching, standing in front of the class, looking into the faces of the attendees and quietly wondering: Is it you? Did I hurt you? That uncertainty would have turned every message into a performance. I would be teaching spiritual truth without being able to live it. My public role would no longer align with my private reality. And I never signed up to perform.
The decision to withhold the opportunity for me to apologize, to keep me from making things right, chose comfort over clarity and control over healing.
It wasn’t my decision, and it wasn’t something I could control. So I focused on what I could. I stepped down.
