The Souls Of Business
A short reflection on business as a human endeavor, observing that companies are filled with unique people at different phases of their journeys, all seeking real connection to themselves and others and purpose in their work.
A short reflection on business as a human endeavor, observing that companies are filled with unique people at different phases of their journeys, all seeking real connection to themselves and others and purpose in their work.
An answer to a reader whose partner is uninterested in relationship exercises, advising them to be the partner they want to have by modeling trust-building, sharing needs and fears, and initiating connection around intimacy and finances by example.
An audience-question answer to a man who feels below-average in a looks-obsessed dating culture — explaining that attraction merely opens the gate, that criteria for partners vary widely, and that real love becomes possible only once you know, like, and validate yourself.
A personal reflection on worrying about a nearly grown son — realizing that while it isn’t a parent’s place to interfere with a child’s path, one is never powerless, because love, compassion, and healing energy can always be consciously sent.
A Stage Three exercise for moving beyond one’s own needs by imagining another person’s situation, feeling what they would need in it, and providing even a small part of that to recognize their shared humanity.
A Stage Three teaching on connecting to sexuality through mind, body, and energy — examining beliefs and past experiences, honoring current needs, and using breath and attention to feel and move sexual energy alone or with a partner.
A Stage Two exercise in identifying and honoring personal needs across physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, medical, and purpose-driven categories, with guidance on examining unhealthy needs and revising the list as life and self evolve.
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 essay arguing that expectation, of ourselves and others, is a device for validating a constructed sense of self, and that recognizing there is no fixed self can free us from the stress of the whole cycle.
A meditation on mortality and legacy, detailing how each generation is remembered in ever-thinner fragments until forgotten entirely, and reframing being forgotten as a release from the illusion of a permanent self.
A short teaching proposing that attachment is really expectation, that expecting people or things to comfort or complete us leads to disappointment, and that releasing expectation makes room for genuine connection instead.
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 chakra-by-chakra guide to building complete connection with a romantic partner, moving from trust and grounding at the root through sexuality, individuality, love, truth, and intuition to shared transcendence at the crown.
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 practical essay on distinguishing an impulse you will later regret from a genuine soul ‘compelling,’ offering rules of thumb, especially that anything rushed or involving spending money is usually impulse rather than intuitive guidance.
A guidance essay on releasing anxiety over grown children, arguing that worrying about their choices is futile once they are adults, and advising disciplined self-focus, selective responsiveness, and accepting a child’s right to walk their own path.
An essay arguing that people can only love others to the degree they love themselves, explaining why loved ones’ actions may fall short of their claims, and advising readers to assess others’ self-love and examine their own.
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.
A large curated collection of self-reflection questions covering feelings, values, purpose, fears, habits, relationships and self-talk, offered as prompts for self-development and life integration and meant to be worked through only a few at a time.
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 sensual song written for lovemaking, described by the artist as loopable ‘baby-making music’ about desire rekindling in the afterglow, presented with its chords, technique notes and full lyrics.
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.