Building an Internal Container I was reading my favorite author, James Hollis, this week, and he presented a BEAUTIFUL excerpt written by...

Nature is Medicine I want to switch it up a little bit this week and share about an experience I had this past weekend in the desert of...

Changing How You Relate to Your Problems I have thought a lot this week about how we relate to our mental health issues. I have...

Guilt Is A Complex Emotion Part 2 Alright, so last week we got into the different types of guilt. Authentic guild, as a form of...

Guilt Is A Complex Emotion Part 1 It is easy to lump all guilt into one bucket and to treat it as good or bad, helpful or not helpful....

Last year, I read Rick Rubin's book called The Creative Act. It was. a fantastic book and really helped me solidify my perspective on...

Making decisions is hard. Especially life-altering decisions like having children, getting married, moving to a new place, taking a new...

Enlargement vs. Diminishment Making decisions is hard. Especially life-altering decisions like having children, getting married, moving...

Finding Retreat Within Yourself I am writing you this newsletter from sunny and humid Mexico. Much different than my home environment of...

Why do I trade long-term suffering for short-term comfort in relationships? Life requires us to make trades. Many of those trades are...

Why do I trade long-term suffering for short-term comfort in relationships? Life requires us to make trades. Many of those trades are...

The Sensational Experience of Having a Body (Part 3) The Sensational Experience of Having a Body (Part 3) Last week, in Part 2 of this...

The Sensational Experience of Having a Body (Part 3) Previously, in Part 2 of this newsletter series, we talked about our window of...

Last week, we talked about separating our identity from our thoughts. A big takeaway is recognizing, "I am not my thoughts." This is...

The Sensational Experience of Having a Body (Part 1) sen·sa·tion /senˈsāSHən/ noun 1. a physical feeling or perception resulting from...

The Sensational Experience of Having a Body (Part 2) Last week, we talked about separating our identity from our thoughts. A big takeaway...

The Necessity of Speaking Your Truth The last couple of newsletters have been navigating shame and the problem with being good. I want to...

The Problem With Being Good Last week, I wrote about shame and how shame stifles the energy of love. I want to keep building on that idea...

A popular way of understanding shame is by separating the difference between DOING wrong and BEING wrong. So when a person does something...

What is depth psychology? Has you or someone you loved ever been given a psychiatric diagnosis, given a bottle of pills, and sent on the...