Eye of the Mountain
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Writing about breaking into reality.
Essays, memoir and poetry on attention, grief, belonging and aliveness. What does it take to live beyond survival and projection? How do we move towards participation and thriving?
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The Eye of the Mountain
On a vision quest, I found a symbol that has guided me ever since: the eye of the mountain. This is the story of facing silence, fear, and hunger — and discovering the myths that shape our lives.
The Blackness of Darkness
This essay recounts my earliest experiences of physical and emotional abuse — and how those wounds shaped my nervous system, relationships, and sense of self. It’s an unflinching look at what happens when love and violence fuse in a child’s world, and how those patterns echo across a lifetime. This is not a story of blame, but of understanding — of…
Solar Plexus Chakra: identity
Frames the solar plexus as the seat of choice and agency, moving from identities organized around compliance and shame toward assertiveness, self-definition, and action rooted in chosen values.
Sacral / Navel Chakra: life force
Explores the sacral chakra as the source of desire, vitality, creativity, and emotional flow, asking how shame and dissociation can be transformed into self-acceptance, pleasure, and honest wanting.
Root Chakra: the right to be
Maps the root chakra as the bodily ground of safety and belonging, tracing how fear and early instability become hypervigilance and how breath, boundaries, and contact with the earth restore the right to exist.
Heart chakra: connection
Examines the heart as a practice of connection without self-erasure, joining grief, forgiveness, generosity, and boundaries in a vision of love grounded in presence rather than rescue.
Deconditioning Everything I Was
Rock bottom was my altar. A broken spine became my teacher. In the ashes of exhaustion, I found ignition. This is the story of how I stopped trying to heal into safety and started living into power: how the man who once begged not to wake up learned to walk, dance, build and burn again. It’s not about crawling out of the cave; it’s about launching from…
Crown Chakra: vision
Completes the chakra map with a meditation on consciousness, meaning, and interdependence, locating spiritual vision not in escape from the body but in recognizing the self as part of a living whole.