Pain as an Invitation Most of us spend our lives trying to get rid of pain. We numb it, fight it, distract from it. We tell ourselves pain means something is wrong — with us, with our choices, with life itself. But pain can also...
Mindfulness Beyond the Buzzword: Why This Matters Now This month, I published an article in Executive Functions Magazine titled Mindfulness Beyond the Buzzword: Healing Attention in a Hyperstimulated World. In it, I explore how mindfulness has been watered down into a trend word, when in...
A Lesson from Retreat: Real Over Polite Recently, my essay “Real Over Polite” was published in Elephant Journal. It came from an emotionally taxing purge that was both cathartic and familiar—familiar because it carried the same felt sense of loneliness I’ve felt so many times...
I’ve spent years helping people understand boundaries— where they begin, where they end, and how to hold them when people or systems try to bulldoze through. Over and over, I’ve had to draw those lines myself —not just with people, but with institutions that were...