Recent social media posts by attendants of a retreat that I hosted in Mexico have been circulating, the subtext of which suggests that a mistake was made during the retreat. Yes, I made a mistake. I contravened what I teach by giving services to people who had not paid for them and furthermore owed money for other services already rendered. I made these exceptions to my own rules on the basis of the relationships I had developed with these students of my work over the years of their enrolment…