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 teaching essay on why self-understanding matters even amid ordinary chores and human suffering, arguing that developing to later stages of understanding lets you shape your own reality, and starting with the question of what you truly want to feel.
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.
A teaching essay on the danger of accepting labels for our core self, from others or from ourselves — distinguishing real, learnable skills from an ever-changing ‘self’ that doesn’t truly exist, and warning how borrowed labels become limiting beliefs.
A teaching essay arguing that religion and science are complementary conduits to truth, and that faith can be a powerful vehicle for spiritual self-development — moving from identifying with our needs or ideologies toward seeing ourselves as children of the divine.
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.
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.
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.
An original percussive blues song, with lyrics and playing technique, about how we seek validation from others but can ultimately only give it to ourselves — and how youthful uncertainty opens the door to manipulation and oppression.