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Ego Baggage

At this moment The ego stands and trails behind it All the variations of me throughout my life. The sadness and the heartaches and hurts...

"There is no such thing as a 100% person."

This quote is from the absolutely incredible and potentially life-changing book The Courage to Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi and...

A New Framework/Skill Set

I had a draft of a blog post from mid October that started, “It has been A WEEK!” I don’t think that post got saved, and when I refreshed...

thoughts on growth (part 1)

While the thoughts for this post have been percolating around my head, I am not sure if I've already mentioned some of the key ideas that...

showing up

Near the beginning of the summer I had the chance to do a plant medicine journey with the wonderful woman who has worked with me on some...

may all beings be happy

Back in early February, I attended a group event as a sort of kick-off for a project David is currently working on. Myself and a few...

just a little self therapy in the car

I'm going to start with a quick overview of the therapy modality called Internal Family Systems (IFS). I first came across it in a book...

mother

Humans, being mammals, are naturally obsessed with mothers. I'll elaborate. The word "mammal" is from the Latin mammalis which has as its...

people are lovely

At the club dancing last night to the DJ, I was struck by how I could look at everyone and see their loveliness. Especially watching...

Craving Connection

Talking with my sangha the other day, someone mentioned all of the opportunities for connection we have today, with the internet and...

Key Idea #1 - Awareness

I was lucky enough to spend time tonight with a good friend, someone who I feel really gets me (and the feeling is mutual) so I feel like...

let the thoughts and opinions of the mind...

...be the thoughts and opinions of the mind. --Ram Dass Something that has come as a surprise to me over the past couple of years is to...

on the life-stealing capacity of worry

I started therapy in November of 2020. Things were not great in my relationship with David and I felt helpless to move forward. I knew...

seeing honestly

“The simple rules of this game are being honest with ourselves about where we’re at, and learning to listen, to be able to hear how it...

On NOT living the Dharma

It was a rough weekend. And the roughness started on Thursday night. It's the kind of experience that I look back on and parts seem...

bless

During my plant medicine journey, I was the recipient of four Key Ideas. During the time that each was given to me, I felt as if the full...

fear

Several months ago I had a discussion with David in which it came up that something that was probably a pretty big stumbling block in the...

values

In February 2021 I had been feeling like I was struggling to know myself. Between the extreme stress and exhaustion of the twins' first...

awakening

Last June I had a week that for some reason stood out and sparked something in me that even now I don't quite understand. At the time I'd...

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This is a personal experiment. I've felt like a format to share some of my thoughts and experiences in a longer format would be helpful for me, and potentially maybe helpful for someone else. I'm an internal processor and writing my thoughts out helps me to better understand myself, so we will see if this is something that sticks.

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