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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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.
The Paradoxes of Wholeness
Argues that wholeness requires access to both sides of a polarity: risk as well as safety, softness as well as strength, immaturity as well as growth. Trauma narrows that range; integration restores the freedom to move between opposites.
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.
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.
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.