May 31, 2018
An essay questioning whether people should be defined by their past mistakes or their contributions, arguing for remembering both, restoring dignity to the forgotten, and judging others only as we ourselves would wish to be judged.
May 31, 2018
A practical guide offering several methods for discovering your unique purpose or mission — including free-flow writing, the four-way intersections exercise, skills assessments, and quiet meditative listening — with the reminder that your purpose will not resemble anyone else’s.
May 31, 2018
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.
May 31, 2018
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.
May 31, 2018
An art piece created to depict the artist’s own mind, its pockets of order and intellectual curiosity threatened by, or perhaps threatening, a tidal wave of obsessive distraction, capturing the felt experience of an autistic inner world.
Apr 13, 2018
A description of an abstract artwork titled Ordered Chaos, offered for sale, inspired by Chaos Theory in mathematics — the artist playing with the idea that chaos can be ordered and generative, and reframing change as not always a bad thing.
Apr 13, 2018
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.
Apr 6, 2018
A personal essay on childhood limiting beliefs that resist removal, offering a technique of completing each negative belief with a positive extension rather than fighting it, then rereading the revised statements often to retrain the mind.
Apr 6, 2018
An art photograph of a candlelit statue casting the shadow of a couple on the wall behind it, presented as a study in how outward appearances make it impossible to tell whether a relationship is happy, struggling, or in conflict.
Apr 6, 2018
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.
Apr 6, 2018
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.
Apr 6, 2018
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.
Jan 22, 2018
A personal reflection on living with profound regret over choices made under family and cult-like pressure, using the idea of parallel universes to hold both grief for a delayed freedom and gratitude for finally breaking free.