Helping Yourself, Helping Others

Steven Barnes
5 min readSep 29, 2020

Realizing that I’m not finished with Jason, and that going deeply into the personal history that drove decisions and actions in a book would demand that I put his business out in the street in a way I’m not comfortable with, and KNOWING that he wouldn’t be ready to participate in such a project now means that it might, in my judgement, take five years before he’s at such a point gives me pause.

Because, IF we’ve made the breakthrough, I feel it critical to document as much as possible. So…hmmm. Here’s what I’ll do. I’m going to speak of the process more theoretically, and…

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.