Doing vs Being – How To Focus Your Efforts
A brief method for focusing effort in difficult moments by asking what one needs to BE rather than what one needs to do, letting the desired way of being reveal the concrete actions to take.
Motivation – Can You Will Yourself To Will? Yes!
An essay challenging the claim that willpower cannot be willed, citing Libet’s experiments and arguing that the will is a trainable muscle, with graduated exercises from the marshmallow test to harder tests of self-discipline.
Family – When And How To Walk Away Or Reconnect
A candid guide to difficult family relationships, covering when to walk away from abusive or harmful relatives, how to exit gracefully by fading out, and when and how to reconnect once both parties have genuinely evolved.
Does Peace = An Open Heart?
A reflective essay on choosing to love fully despite inevitable pain, the profound peace found in surrendering to love, and whether lasting peace is simply an open heart held within a carefully constructed boundary.
Retraining Your Brain
A practical, personal walkthrough of a belief-retraining process: identifying stressors, writing corrective perspectives for each, and distilling them into daily affirmations read for a month to replace limiting beliefs with healthier mindsets and behaviors.
Manifesting Struggle: Swimming Against Your River
A teaching piece on manifestation and purpose, arguing that struggle is a signal the universe is blocking something counter to your path, and that recognizing and trusting that resistance helps you make choices aligned with your true purpose.
Making The Big Decisions Easy
A practical teaching essay offering a method for hard decisions: list each option’s reasons, reduce each to its root emotional trigger, and notice whether the pull comes from the human mind — greed, ego, fear — or from the soul’s purpose, service and love.
Mid-Life Crisis And Other Catalysts To The Best Life Ever
A reflective essay framing the author’s age-31 mid-life crisis as a catalyst for self-development, situating it within the cycle of human development stages and introducing manifesting as a learnable skill for shaping one’s own reality.
Manifesting – A Comprehensive And Simple Guide To Finally Doing It Right
A step-by-step guide to manifesting: choosing what to attract, writing it by hand, feeling and acting on inner guidance, plus warnings about manifesting from fear versus love and the difference between influence and control.
Martyrdom
An autobiographical song for mothers about the habit of self-sacrifice for family approval, and the realization that loved ones are happiest when one is fulfilled, presented with chords and full lyrics.
Painted In Chaos
A song, with chords and lyrics, about living amid accelerating change — the fear of losing the illusion of choice, and the discovery of space on the page and peace in the change as it burns on.
A Nurturing Fate
A reflective essay weighing free will against fate, drawing on everyday serendipities to suggest that life balances genuine choice with a deeper compulsion that guides us — protectively and like a parent — toward each new milestone.