The book page for 32 Steps, presenting Dr. Kathryn Colleen’s thesis that lasting global peace is inevitable, mapping an eleven-stage cycle of individual development onto the collective evolution of societies and humanity through history.
An argument that lasting global peace is achievable through a bottom-up approach of helping each person reach personal peace and Stage Six, paired with top-down efforts like Peace One Day, so that violence never reaches critical mass.
An audience-question answer explaining that maintaining connection to the divine depends on first maintaining every other layer of connection — to experience, body, mind, needs, others, ideology, questioning, and purpose — sustained through daily habits of sleep, exercise, nutrition, meditation, and service.
A condensed personal summary of the author’s reading across fitness, nutrition, anti-aging, and disease prevention — outlining diet, cardio, strength, and protocols for cancer, neurodegeneration, and cardiovascular risk, with a clear disclaimer that it is not medical advice.
A first-person account of the author’s Reiki attunement through levels one and two, describing sessions with her Reiki master, the emotional experience of attunement, and practicing hands-on energy healing on herself and her dog.
A personal reflection sparked by a seven-week kitchen renovation on how physical chaos pushes us into survival mode, and why a place of peace and order is essential for growth, creativity, and self-development.
A short meditation teaching on letting go, inviting the practitioner to set down needs, roles, stories, and worries like heavy bags in order to relax fully into the infinite silence and let energy flow through.
A reflective essay on holding joy while others suffer, drawing on Buddhist and Hindu perspectives to argue that suffering alongside others helps no one, and that embodying peace and joy is what truly lifts them.
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.
A teaching essay outlining five kinds of peace — financial, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual — arguing that each must be tended, that you must heal yourself before helping others, and describing the marks of peace in each domain.