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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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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.
From Scarcity to Abundance, Through Hell (but gamified!)
Scarcity isn’t just about money — it’s the way trauma teaches us to live braced, small, never enough. This piece is about how I turned toward those demons and discovered that abundance isn’t about stuff — it’s about safety, wholeness, and breath.
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 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…
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…