I used to treat healing like a job. Not metaphorically. Literally. A full-time, unpaid position with no weekends, no benefits, and no retirement plan—just the dangling promise that if I […]
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 […]
The Big Picture
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 […]
The Big Picture
Living in the Between
Living in the Between Most people hear “living in the Between” and imagine balance. Centered. Grounded. Calm. A spiritual sweet spot between chaos and peace. That’s not what this is. […]
The Big Picture
What I Mean by “Stories”
We don’t actually live inside reality. We live inside stories about reality. They tell us who we are, what we’re worth, what matters, what we should fear, what we should […]
Initiation
When Meditation Opens the Wrong Door
I read a post the other day from someone who had been meditating two, sometimes four hours a day. Long sits. Deep stillness. No distractions. And then things started happening. […]
The Big Picture
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 […]
The Big Picture
The Unchanging Self
(The Original Code Beneath the Overlays) From the moment we enter this world, we already are. The self that looks out through your eyes right now is the same self […]
The Big Picture
The Binding of Release
Words are not decoration. They are instruments.Every phrase we speak programs the field around us.Empires, religions, and revolutions were built from nothing more than words charged with emotion.That’s what magic […]