Tag: healing
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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 Dirt That Loves You Back | Gardening, Soil Bacteria & Nervous System Healing
I thought I was just trying to grow tomatoes. Instead, I accidentally fell in love with gardening — and discovered research suggesting certain soil bacteria may influence serotonin, inflammation, stress resilience, and the nervous system itself. Maybe the point isn’t becoming a perfect gardener. Maybe it’s letting the body remember it belongs to the earth.
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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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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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Morning Rituals for Spiritual Abundance
Morning rituals to take care of your presence so you can then take care of everything else.
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Spiritually Nostalgic and Subtle Message T-Shirts
My favorite subtle, cool, spiritual, easy to wear t-shirts.
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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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Unlock Clarity: Must-Have Tools for Personal Growth
Spiritual tools that help with inner alignment. These “like-hacks” make the self-discipline a bit easier.
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From Blog to Podcast: My Unexpected Journey
My 1st week blogging was a spiritual whiplash that left me breathless. Even if the results fell flat, the journey was so amazing, it’s all I needed.
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High-Vibration Jewelry Picks that Align for Spiritual Growth
Adorn your temple with what brings you peace.
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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.