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The Art of Beginnings

Aren’t these early moments of the year a little hard? I’ve lived through 46 of them so far, and to me, they feel like when you were a kid, running […]

Remembering

Looking back to see forward To remember implies that there’s something we’ve forgotten—and this is often true. Being alive is synonymous with forgetting. In fact, you might say we’re born […]

How to write morning pages

Morning Pages, a practice developed by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist’s Way, are a daily writing exercise designed to unblock creativity and foster self-awareness. They are essentially brain […]

Empowering Minds: Support Ryan’s IFS Level 2 Journey

I’m conducting this fundraiser for my Level 2 Internal Family Systems (IFS) course in October. IFS is a transformative therapeutic approach that views the mind as naturally multiple, with each […]

Beautiful Monsters

In Tibetan Buddhism, there’s a powerful concept that can transform how we view our inner struggles. Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche speaks about shaking hands with what he calls our […]

How not to doubt yourself

The Dalai Lama once said that he wasn’t aware of how much the western mind doubted itself. It wasn’t much of a feature in Tibetan culture. As if in the […]

For the love of movement

In movement, we engage in a kind of alchemy of the past. We come into relation with ourselves, not as we want to be but as we actually are. This […]

Inside (and out) of the drama triangle

Why its a foundational map everyone should know I’m often surprised how easy it is to slip into the drama triangle. The allure of the victim, the sudden pull of […]

What if you gave up on the idea of change?

Embracing Responsibility Without Forcing Change What if there really wasn’t a problem to solve? What if everything as it is right now is all okay? How would that feel? When […]

Mind at large

After experiencing the realm of psychedelics, life is never quite the same. One has glimpsed something beyond ordinary awareness. Aldous Leonard Huxley, a pioneering philosopher, articulated this phenomenon in his […]