Tag: emotional intellegence
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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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Lichen: Believe the Hype- It’s that fascinating.
I thought I was learning the difference between moss and lichen. Instead, I uncovered one of biology’s strangest stories—a partnership so successful it blurs the line between one organism and many, and quietly asks one of philosophy’s oldest questions.
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What Could I Give the Infinite?
A small offering of human time. What began as an act of gratitude became something else entirely.
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The Daily Graphic: The Red Book, Episode 14 — What Is This?
A new Red Book comic inspired by Jung and Philemon explores the hidden weight we carry, the stories we build around it, and what happens when we finally set it down.
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I Always Knew the Snake Was Necessary
For years, the pressure felt like part of me. The tension. The urgency. The constant hum beneath everything. Then one day it was gone. I kept looking for it, certain I had misplaced something essential. What I discovered instead was a truth both terrifying and liberating: I had mistaken adaptation for identity.
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God Is a Tree Frog: The Morning I Forgot to Look for Meaning
I walked to my koi pond for my daily connection to something larger than myself. Instead of finding wisdom in an audiobook, I found it sitting motionless in the middle of the path—a beautiful tree frog I thought was dying. Sometimes the lesson arrives before the lesson begins.
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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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Maudlin Guilt: When Suffering Becomes Ego Worship
Sometimes guilt becomes less about accountability and more about self-absorption. Real humility doesn’t endlessly worship suffering. It acknowledges harm, seeks repair, and rejoins life.
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How Chronic Executive Control Quietly Exhausts the Mind
Some people move through life with an internal manager that never clocks out. Even during quiet moments, part of the mind remains active — organizing tomorrow, revisiting yesterday, evaluating the self in real time. This reflective neuroscience-informed essay explores executive functioning, chronic self-monitoring, burnout, flow states, and what happens when the mind finally loosens its…
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The Scaffolding
Maybe adulthood truly begins the moment we realize much of our inner world was assembled before we were old enough to examine it. Our ideas about love, responsibility, rest, suffering, and even God can become invisible scaffolding quietly holding up the architecture of the self — until one day, it no longer works. This is…
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We
What if happiness doesn’t come from focusing more on yourself, but less? A reflection on ego, community, service, and the surprising peace found in “we.”
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The Exhaustion of Social Expectations
This piece explores the hidden exhaustion of social performance — the subtle self-monitoring running beneath everyday interactions and the relief that comes when we stop managing ourselves long enough to simply participate in reality again. Through humor, humility, nervous system insight, and the strange comfort of cancelled plans, it examines why authenticity feels less draining…
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The Doorway You Entered Through
The patterns we repeat often began long before we understood them. A thoughtful exploration of childhood conditioning, self-awareness, manifestation, emotional survival strategies, and the quiet courage of questioning the stories we inherited.
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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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My Punk Kid Hero
When self-protection comes out as rage. This is my personal experience and insight in loving my inner punk kid hero.
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Understanding Metacognition: The Astute Son of Humility and a Guide to Better Thinking
What is Metacognition? How do researchers study this concept? Where do we see this anatomically and what happens when disrupted? How it relates to humility and a philosophy of life. Perspective Shifts.