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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Just Everything
Critiques a modern life fragmented by screens, stimulation, productivity, and individualism. Against that division, it insists that human survival and aliveness depend on recovering felt membership in bodies, rooms, communities, and the living world.
Rock Bottom Has a Key Hole
Addresses the point at which effort, money, and familiar strategies stop producing change. Rock bottom becomes not a sealed floor but a lock whose key is embodied contact with pain, need, and reality.
How to Do 100 Years of Transformational Healing in One Year
A deliberately exaggerated, darkly comic twenty-step guide to accelerated healing. Beneath the clickbait, it inventories the destabilization, grief, relational risk, embodiment, and relentless practice involved in remaking a life.
Adolescence, the Test of Love
Frames adolescence as love’s test: whether a parent can tolerate a child’s separation, defiance, and independent identity without withdrawing connection.
Venomous Voice
Dissects the moral superiority hidden inside compulsive giving, showing how generosity becomes poisonous when it is used to purchase identity, leverage, or repayment.
Coherence of the Center
Proposes the center as the organizing reference point of transformation. Coherence emerges when perception and action orient from an embodied center rather than reacting from fragmented edges.
Dating Profiles
Satirizes dating-app self-presentation by making projection, maternal longing, rejection practice, and domestic expectations explicit. The joke exposes how profiles market fantasies instead of introducing real people.
Start Here - the Arc of Becoming
My writing traces a single long arc — from trauma to wholeness, from silence to voice.
Autobiographical Pieces
These are the stories that built me. They trace the long arc from childhood abuse and suicidal despair to awakening, meaning, and purpose. Each one is a milestone — a moment when I stopped surviving and started seeing. They aren’t just confessions, but maps: records of how pain becomes understanding, how shame becomes strength, and how truth, when spoken…
Poems
These poems are milestones on my way home. I didn’t write them to impress or explain — I wrote them because I had to. Each one marks a moment when something broke, opened, or came alive again. Together, they tell the story of becoming feral in the best way possible — wild, awake, and at peace with the world.
Guides for Healing
Collects the practices that carried the author through trauma recovery, emphasizing grief, nervous-system capacity, embodied attention, and the slow conversion of pain into usable experience.
You call it a wasteland?
Some people see ruin. I see the raw material of rebirth. This is a spoken-word meditation on destruction and what can grow in its ashes.