Most men live as if pain is the enemy.
They build their whole lives trying to avoid it.
But pain is not your enemy—it’s your invitation.

Pain is permission.

Permission to slow down.
To ask deeper questions.
To face the parts of yourself that high performance can’t heal.

The wound is not the end of your story.
It’s the door into it.

You weren’t made to numb your suffering.
You were made to walk through it.
And become someone new on the other side.

This week, we don’t run from the ache.
We ask what it has to teach us.
Because every man of substance has walked through the fire—and stayed.