Category: Reframed
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Biological Terms Every Writer Should Steal
What can biology teach us about love, identity, transformation, and the human condition? Twelve extraordinary scientific terms offer writers a whole new vocabulary for exploring life’s oldest mysteries.
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Before We Argue About the Patriarchy, Can We Please Define Our Terms?
Before we argue about patriarchy and matriarchy, we need to define the damn words. A research-grounded guide to gender, power, prejudice, and the assumptions hiding in plain sight.
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THE TWELVE CONCEPTS
For People Who Would Rather Be at a Step Meeting Part Two: Now We Have to Live in the Thing (Concepts 7-12) Link to Part 1 By the end of Concept VI, Bill has accomplished something fairly remarkable. He has taken a Fellowship full of people with an understandable suspicion of authority and built a…
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The Twelve Concepts for People Who Would Rather Be at a Step Meeting
I would rather be at a Step meeting. But beneath the committees, trustees, Conferences, and service structure of A.A.’s Twelve Concepts, Bill W. was writing about something much more interesting: power. Who gets it, how we share it, how we restrain it, and how a bunch of alcoholics learn to trust one another with it.
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Dating Dogma
What if you stopped marrying ideas and started dating them instead? This philosophical reflection explores humility, discernment, curiosity, and truth-seeking through the metaphor of an archer continually refining her aim. Hold your convictions deeply—but let your explanations evolve as you grow closer to Truth.
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Words That Expand the Soul
There are words that help us communicate. Then there are words that quietly change the way we perceive reality. You don’t need to use them in conversation. You don’t need to memorize them for a vocabulary quiz. Simply knowing they exist is often enough. Once you learn the word petrichor, you’ll never again smell rain…
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Finding Clarity: What to Do… When You Don’t Know What to Do
What if clarity isn’t something you force? Explore the relationship between attention, surrender, perception, and spiritual alignment through the symbols of the road, the dolphin, and the horizon.
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The Stories Women Learn to Tell
What if the harshest voice in your life isn’t coming from other people at all? A reflection on self-perception, inner criticism, and the stories women quietly tell themselves in the mirror.
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Embracing Emotional Authenticity: The Power of Humility
We spend so much of life performing versions of ourselves: the composed one, the enlightened one, the emotionally untouchable one. But what if humility isn’t about becoming less human… but finally embracing emotional authenticity and the quiet relief of being real? A deeply reflective piece on ego, self-awareness, nervous-system healing, and the freedom of letting…
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Humility Reframed: From Ego to Spirit
For most of my life, I thought humility meant shrinking myself. But what if true humility is something far more radical? A reflection on ego, spirit, fear, and the realization that we are all trying to navigate the strange and beautiful experience of being human together.
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Why the Gnostic Creation Story Resonated So Violently With Me
What if the Gnostic creation story was never just about the cosmos… but about us? A mythic exploration of Sophia, the ego, intuition, logic, and the human longing for wholeness.
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Reframing Success: Why Humility Matters
Success is not incongruent with humility. In fact, humility is important for sustained success.
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Reframed: Embrace Your Wandering Mind in Meditation
A way to practice meditation that takes all the pressure out.
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From Pleasure to Contentment: The Discipline Shift
A scatter-brained adhd mom realizing the value of discipline in a spiritual life.
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The Desert of Ego: Finding Connection
The temptations of the ego aren’t always temptations of the flesh. This piece explores more subtle ego temptations that can repeatedly block us from the message the ego is trying to give in the first place.
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Finding Security: Ego vs. Spirit
An essay discussing what the ‘ego’ is in basic terms and how claiming it is as your entire identity without also identifying in the mystery of your spirit, leads to more frustration and insecurity.
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Religion vs Spirituality: Understanding the Nuances
What is the difference between religion and spirituality? This conceptual deep dive gives clarity, insight and core strengths of both avenues towards the divine.
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Discovering Truth Beyond the Lies I Told Myself
A reflection on facing the truth and the cleansing, sometimes harsh, but interconnected clarity that the truth brings. Psychology behind why we lie to ourselves and the process of facing reality, realizing it’s better than ferociously working to keep your reality safe.
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Letting Go: Reclaim Your Peace Through Forgiveness
People oftentimes think forgiveness means what it doesn’t mean, so they hold on to the resentments that poison their lives. This essay discusses misconceptions and how easy it is to let go.