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Category Archives: Reflections
A Simple Wind Chime or an Echo in Time & Space?
I was sitting down to lunch when I shared an idea for a wind chime I’d been designing. She looked at me and said, ‘Wind chime?’ I said yes. She said that just didn’t seem like my kind of thing. She was right, but as I paused to answer, everything changed.
The Things We Avoid
Maybe the first step toward attending to what needs attending isn’t forcing myself to do it. Maybe it’s stopping the judgment. Recognizing that I’m overwhelmed, that this is hard right now, and that’s okay. If I can offer compassion to others when struggling, maybe I deserve that same kindness too.
The Aliens Were Never the Enemy: How I Learned to Talk to My Body
For years, recurring nightmares of aliens terrorified me awake; hyperventilating, drenched in sweat. But something shifted. In a recent dream, when panic surged, I simply chose to breathe. The fear dissolved. What I discovered next wasn’t mystical; it was practical, embodied, and transformative.
The Evolution of Meditation: And What Meditation Is…
A journey into meditation following a significant betrayal. Initially confused by varying guides I learned to simply observe in silence. Over years of practice I discovered meditation is about letting go rather than forcing experiences. This evolved into a curiosity about gentle intention and self-observation, leading to deeper personal insights.
What My Addiction Taught Me About Desire
The difference feels like strain versus reorientation. Willpower is me standing in front of the desire, trying to hold it back. This shift is me seeing past it, recognizing that the same energy can either be spent on the craving or directed toward what I actually want.
Getting in My Own Way: The Research Trap
I thought I’d learned this lesson. But sitting down to record my first podcast, I felt it creeping back in; that need to impress, to do it “the right way.” My head started to spin again. How did I get here? Time and time again, I forget: when I finally let go and trust myself, everything comes together.
Philosophy and Fishsticks: Finding Ground in the Mystical
After years of chasing mystical truths through philosophy and introspection, one question kept circling back: how do I make it real? The answer arrived wrapped in the whimsy of Fishsticks. A podcast idea where high-flying ideas touch ground, where the abstract becomes audible and shareable. Where philosophy finally learns to breathe.
Unfiltered: The Unexpected Power of Deep Journaling
Journaling creates a feedback loop with the deeper portions of ourselves. Like opening an inner dialogue with different parts of ourselves that we often don’t let see the light of day. Almost like visiting the inner prison we have built after years of life lived and traumas survived.
The Fear beneath the Fear
I had done so much work to stop fearing negative outcomes that I hadn’t noticed a more refined fear still living underneath: the fear of not getting the outcome I preferred. I was no longer clinging to catastrophe, but I was still clinging to authorship.