A Stage Ten exercise from the Purna Asatti journey for identifying the situations, habits, and people that disconnect you — from yourself, others, and the present — and designing an environment that helps you return to connection quickly.
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 real-time journal entry written while the author’s aunt was dying in hospice and her son underwent brain surgery, exploring grief, separateness, transcendence, and the spiritual idea of dissolving the self to rejoin oneness.