When my life was falling apart, I was doing two deep meditations a day, trying to interrupt the experience I was having and gain some nugget of insight that would […]
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Awakening Didn’t Fail You — The Story Did
Most people assume that whatever they think or feel must belong to them. That their judgments are personal. Their exhaustion is personal. Their sense of failure, their lack of motivation, […]
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Are We There Yet?
People fail to trust their psychic abilities not because they aren’t gifted enough. They fail because they try to use those abilities inside a system that trained them to misread […]
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Holiday Recycling Season: Welcome Back to the Machine
(A Crack-Side Field Note on the Most Emotionally Efficient Time of Year) Every December, humanity reenacts the same ancient ritual: The Great Recycling. Not plastic. Not wrapping paper. Not your […]
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THE SHAMANIC STATE – Part 1
(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 […]
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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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The Self-Help Trap and the Between
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 […]
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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 […]