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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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.
Resurrecting the Lost Technology of Grief
Grief isn’t a stage you “get through.” It’s a living technology — a force that dismantles and remakes us. Here I share how grief works on the body, the spirit, and the community, and why learning its language is key to healing.
Unfurling
Healing feels like trying to shape water — impossible, until you realize you can flow with it. This series is about the practices and metaphors that helped me turn trauma into movement, ritual and life.
Taming the Dragon
Living with Borderline Personality Disorder felt like being chained to fire. Writing publicly about it became a way of taming that dragon — of turning intensity into clarity, and shame into voice.
Breathe in
Uses the cycle of inhaling and exhaling to connect regulation, sensitivity, joy, and growth. Breath becomes the meeting place of conscious intention and unconscious life, allowing vulnerability to function as an opening rather than a threat.
A Taste of Life
This is what aliveness tastes like — the press of the throttle, the rise of the sun, the shiver of being seen. This poem is a hymn to those fleeting, infinite moments when the body remembers joy and the heart no longer flinches. It’s about flying, dancing, loving, forgiving, and realizing that every sensation — even pain — is proof that you’ve come back…
Write it in blood if you must
Accompanies the reader through suicidal despair from the perspective of someone who survived its long recurrence. It treats surrender, truthful expression, and being witnessed as ways to remain in relationship with life when hope is unavailable.
Barefoot
This essay begins as a reflection on the simple act of walking without shoes — and unfolds into a lesson on sensitivity and connection. By feeling the earth directly, I explore how awareness in the body can ripple into awareness in relationships and daily life. It’s a piece about gentleness and remembering that belonging starts with attuned contact —…
Throat Chakra: voice
Treats the throat chakra as the meeting place of truth, authority, and expression, exploring how a silenced or adaptive voice can become direct, accountable, and powerful without losing love.
Third Eye Chakra: insight
Explores the third eye as discernment and pattern recognition: the capacity to question inherited stories, trust intuition, and remain curious at the edge between rational understanding and mystery.
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.