Guiding people to
freer expression

Guiding people to
freer expression

What if you were more yourself more of the time?

What if you were more yourself
more of the time?

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The Short-ish Story

The Short-ish Story

The Short-ish Story

Going into my last year of college, I had the resume, "prestigious" job offer, the friends, the looks — I was as "successful" as you could be at 22. I thought I had life figured out.

Then an on-off crush situation ended (again) and I completely fell apart. I had everything people are supposed to want in a partner, and she still didn't want to be with me — nothing made sense.

I wrote in my journal "Why? Am I not enough?" on November 30th, 2020.

That question cracked me open. For the first time, I stopped looking outward for answers and turned inward instead. I began discovering what lay beneath all the conditioned stories — who I actually am, not who I should be.

I began living my life, not someone else's. Now I walk alongside others doing the same.

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”

—Carl Jung

Dennis Xiao

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