The book page for Validation, Sabotage and Freedom, exploring the nature and effect of money across personal identity, relationships and society — from debt and gambling to wealth, philanthropy, and money as a source of both connection and harm.
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.
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.
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.