(for part two go HERE) When the glitter peeled off the New Age, I found a drum. Not a guru, not a mantra—just a steady, unrelenting heartbeat that carried me […]
The Practice
The Body Knows: Gratitude as the Shortcut to Healing
How an ancient Hawaiian ritual and a modern nervous system met in the same crack of light ⸻ Most people have never heard of Ho‘oponopono, the traditional Hawaiian ceremony for […]
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When Healing Becomes a Religion: The Self-Help Trap and the Real Work of the Crack
I used to treat healing like a job — a full-time, unpaid position with no retirement plan, just the dangling promise that if I worked hard enough, thought positive enough, […]
The Practice
The Joy of Living From the Crack
(Reality’s Dress Code: Wearing the Role Without Becoming It) Living from the Crack isn’t a peaceful spa retreat. It’s demolition followed by exhilaration. At first, it feels like the floor […]
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The Panther and the Pattern
(Tracking the Stories That Hunt Us) When an emotion hits that feels too big for the moment—anxiety without cause, regret out of nowhere, fear of dying—that’s intuition pointing to an ancestral belief […]
Initiation
The Right to Exist
Life isn’t blissful.It’s brutal, beautiful, electric. Every story needs its cast —the wounded, the wounding,the ones who try to hold it all together. Pain isn’t punishment.It’s evidence that you’re alive […]
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Living in the Crack
Most people haven’t lived through emotional intensity like I have. Growing up with my mother—the way she was—being intuitive, empathic, clairvoyant—her illness wasn’t just difficult, it was torture in surround […]
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What I Mean by “Stories”
We don’t live inside reality — we live inside stories about reality. They tell us who we are, what we’re worth, and what we’re supposed to feel. Most of them […]
Initiation
When Meditation Opens the Wrong Door
I read a post the other day—someone meditating 2 to 4 hours a day, then reporting UFOs hovering outside the window, glowing orbs that seemed to know their thoughts. They […]
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The Lie of Choice
For every story, there’s a fork in the road — a choice between polarities. Do you support the emotional stack inside the story, or do you form your own opinion […]