Growing up, my family and I drove six hours from Dallas, Texas to Fayetteville, Arkansas every year to spend Christmas Eve with our paternal grandparents.Each night my brothers, cousins, and I would sift through a small stockpile of VHS tapes...
I started writing a fiction novel. It’s still unclear what it’s about, but so far, it has a beginning and something of a middle. I’m not sure how it ends, so I’ll find out when I get there.After writing two...
I didn’t know what I was looking for,I only knew it was something different.The year was 2015 and I was 23.I’d just quit my job to hike the Pacific Crest Trail.I wasn’t prepared,but something inside me said,“Go on ahead, you’ll be...
When I set out to write my first book, I didn’t think much about the quality of my process. Of course, I wanted the book to be good and as well written as possible, but I mean that inwardly, I...
If we are ever feeling stuck in life, whatever that domain might be, developing a renewed perspective of failure can bring a fresh sense of aliveness to this moment. We can step boldly into the darkness, knowing everything is going...
UnlearningWhen we unlearn,we question and deconstructpreviously untouchedbeliefs and biases.We go to the root of thinkingone rung at a time.By examining old ways of thinking,or even letting go of thinking itself,we might find new pathwaysand growth.But the mind is stubborn.It tends...
This topic is usually approached through a psychoanalytic lens. While that’s one useful method, I want to offer a different path, one that acknowledges the aforementioned intellectual, storied, and thought-based perspective while also focusing more on our sensing faculties to...
This week’s self-inquiry goes deep into understanding thought and the true nature of awareness. It requires space and attention to digest properly. It’s two weeks’ worth of content combined into one. I guess I had a lot to write about...
When we block boredom,We block creativity.Learning to allow for boredomto enter our experience,allows for creativity to flow.In that moment of boredom,The mind will want to escape,To distract itself from this feeling,And will default to what is easy,the path of least...
If we don’t pay attention,we can allow our practice to become mechanical,to fall dead and dying.Whether it be in our meditation, movement, writing,or even our relationships,the same patterns repeat,things get stuck in the grovesof how they’ve always gone,and the quality...
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