A cataloged master list of the roughly sixty most common challenges humans face across mental, emotional, physical, social, financial and whole-life categories, compiled from thousands of survey responses to show how universal and finite our struggles really are.
A reflection on the spontaneous creation of the song “Oh I,” written and recorded in one uninhibited session as the artist sang out a low mood, presented with its chords, drum pattern and full lyrics.
An original song, with chords and lyrics, about longing for a simpler, freer life — the feeling on vacation, camping or in an RV of wanting to stay in a life without chasing money or things, where you can simply be yourself.
An original song, with chords and lyrics, using the metaphor of a river to explore living with the flow of life — weaving in yoga imagery of flow, pose and breath — and letting go of struggle to be carried where you need to be.
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.
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.
A teaching essay proposing that the eleven stages of human development are not a linear staircase but a cycle we traverse repeatedly, with affirmations and daily reminders for spending more time in the later, more peaceful stages.
An overview essay aligning the developmental research of Kegan, Fowler and others into a single eleven-stage cycle spanning social, religious and spiritual growth, described as a circle we travel repeatedly rather than a staircase we climb.
A raw existential essay, prompted by a birthday, on the temporary and evolving nature of self and world, the absence of inherent purpose, and the conclusion that life may be best treated as a game or vacation worth lightening up about.
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.