The book page for Validation, Sabotage and Freedom, exploring the nature and effect of money across personal identity, relationships and society — from debt and gambling to wealth, philanthropy, and money as a source of both connection and harm.
A New Year’s reflection on choosing which emotional and behavioral baggage to carry forward, focusing on discarding fear and the negative conditioning that makes the author reject gifts, love, and support.
A personal reflection written while planning a life of full-time travel, reframing the real worst-case scenario not as running out of money but as squandering freedom, and asking what it means to truly live and serve.
A description of the Stage Five mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where ideology dominates entirely — a black hole absorbing others, experiences, and needs — leaving the true self, the divine, and freedom captive to a rigid worldview craving validation.
A description of the Stage Four mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where the individual first notices that others have needs too — experiences radiating outward to bring awareness of others — in a stage that feels satisfied but faintly smug.
An essay on how social media replaces real connection with shallow validation-seeking, detailing what people publicly share versus privately hide, and arguing that genuine human connection requires self-acceptance and sharing beyond the curated surface.
A teaching on the river metaphor for life, blending fate and free will, explaining how flowing toward your purpose makes life easier, and offering an exercise in appreciating and releasing formative experiences to build trust.
A teaching on treating time and attention as our only nonrenewable resources, making activities and people compete for them, and using an 80/20 analysis to reclaim space for self-development and purpose.
A teaching drawing a sharp line between connection, being fully present to another’s truth without needing their presence or approval, and attachment, which needs presence and leads to pain, arguing complete connection can even transcend death.
The foundational teaching defining Purna Asatti, or complete connection: connecting fully to self, others, and reality across every aspect of being, mapped to the chakras, and reframing tantra as enlightenment through connection rather than sexuality alone.
A short essay on releasing worry about one’s children, recognizing that we cannot know another person’s path or future, and that accepting our not-knowing, offering support, and focusing on our own life serves everyone better.
An introductory roadmap to self-development presenting the author’s model of universal stages of human growth, synthesized from Kegan, Fowler, and others, framed as the guide she wished she had when her own journey began at thirty-one.
A personal essay on how reducing commitments, possessions, and relationships frees up attention, which in turn enables focused intention and creative flow, and on trusting a let-go, unscheduled approach to balancing writing, music, art, and language.
A brief note on the original concept design for the author’s tattoo, titled Freedom From Chaos, which was later placed winding up her back and around her arm.
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.
An emotionally charged original song, with chords and lyrics, about parents deliberately loosening the fences so a child will push toward independence — capturing the grief and love of sending grown children off into the world.
A provocative essay arguing that no one truly cares about your self-discovery — and that this is freeing, because the journey’s real destination is realizing there is no fixed self, only the shared oneness beneath every temporary layer.
A digitally altered photograph of a Harley motorcycle — the artist’s first-ever ride — created as an early experiment in enhancing a photo’s features and marking the moment that inspired her to pursue a license and a bike of her own.