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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Porous
Considers the body as a porous, changing field whose boundaries expand with movement and perception, replacing the fantasy of a fixed self with participation in an environment.
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.
The 5 F's: Freeze, Fawn, Flee, Fight, Follow
We think of personality as fixed - “that’s just who I am.” But beneath lies a choreography of survival: five ancient instincts that shape how we move through love, conflict and belonging. Understanding them isn’t about pathology. It’s about reclaiming choice - the space between stimulus and response where our true self waits to dance.
Start Here - the Arc of Becoming
My writing traces a single long arc — from trauma to wholeness, from silence to voice.
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.
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.
Right here, right now, right you
Presence can feel elusive — like something always out of reach. This piece is a playful reminder that the only doorway is the one right in front of us: here, now, and the person you already are.
Talking to a Ghost
For years, when I looked in the mirror, I didn’t just see myself — I saw a presence that haunted me. This piece is about facing that ghost differently, and how learning to speak with it became a way of reclaiming my own reflection.
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.
Venom to Medicine: the Alchemy of Growth
Presents shadow work as an alchemical practice for converting defensive traits into mature capacities—shame into honor, fear into courage, anger into boundaries, and envy into aspiration—through attention, grief, embodiment, and repetition.
The Helm of Dustiny
Uses a pirate-themed Burning Man build as the stage for reclaiming direction after years organized by trauma and borrowed desires. The handmade helm becomes a declaration against performing, chasing, and betraying one’s own path.