Want to know someone’s (or more importantly, your own!) personality pattern?Watch them on holiday. When structure drops away, patterns show themselves—how we rest, control, avoid, pursue, organise, or disappear. Personality […]

Holidays reveal the great divide between the haves and the have-nots. And there are ways we find ourselves on both sides. But the fact that you’re reading this likely means […]

It’s that time of year again when we find ourselves nearing the end of a full cycle around the sun. As a teacher of mine says: “December arrives with her […]

The Art of Being Real (Without Losing Everyone) A friend of mine once tried an experiment: for three months, she decided to be 100% honest with everyone. No filters. No […]

Writing as a way of listening — a gentle daily practice for clearing the noise and meeting yourself on the page. The Mind Is Noisy The mind is noisy. Morning […]

The things our fathers couldn’t finish become the things we must learn to stay with. My father used to say, “You gotta wanna.”He wrote it on scraps of wood and old […]

A dear teacher of mine, Caroline Carey, shares a profound process called the Mandorla. At first glance it seems simple: two overlapping circles. Each circle represents a different truth, a […]

my post today feels like what i need to tell myself most: it’s ok not to do. you don’t have to have it all worked out. it’s ok not to have a […]

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” — Montaigne Belonging is not just a nice-to-have. It’s a fundamental human need. Without it, we […]

I felt that same old familiar feeling — rock and a hard place, as the saying goes. I’ve been there many, many times before. That place where there really doesn’t […]