Reflections, insights, and stories from the path.
Serious Questions About the Unseen
One month a year, the whole culture agrees to look at the things it spends the other eleven avoiding There are skeletons on the lawns again. Ghosts taped to front...
The Human Side of Hauntings
The activity is rarely what you think. The person in the middle of it always is. There are basically two ways our culture talks about the paranormal. One is...
The Bridge I Live On
What it costs to belong nowhere — because you won't cut yourself in half I have been asked, as an adult, not to come back to church. And I have been held at arm's...
How to Hold a Big Emotion
A warrior's guide to feeling everything — and being run by none of it Most of us think we only have two options with a big emotion. Option one: stuff it. Clamp...
What to Do When You Feel Stuck
When "stuck" is really "not now" Look outside right now and everything is mid-transition. The light is changing, the leaves are turning loose, the whole world is...
Fear vs. Intuition
They can feel identical in the body — but they point in opposite directions "Trust your gut" is some of the most useless advice ever handed to an anxious person....
Stop Asking What's Wrong With Me
For most of my life, everywhere I walked in, the same question was already waiting for me. Nobody said it out loud. But I could feel it in the room, under the...
— And What It Gave Back
A stranger in the mirror, and the strange gift she left behind. I spent most of my life being told I was too much. Too emotional. Too sensitive. Too intense. Too deep for a light...
Why Self-Help Doesn't Stick
You already have the answers. The missing piece was never more information. There's a particular kind of quiet shame that comes from having a shelf full of self-help...
Never Stop Learning About Yourself
It's back-to-school season. Notebooks and pencils, fresh starts, that particular smell of a new box of crayons. And somewhere along the way we got the idea that all...
Beliefs You Never Chose
Every conviction you live by — about faith, money, love, and how you spend your one life — has to be your own Most of us are living by a whole set of beliefs we...
A 4-Step Reset
Some days it all arrives at the same time. The texts and the to-do list and the thing you forgot and the thing you can't fix and the low hum of I should be handling...
Why I Started Warrior Awakening
I didn't come to this work from a mountaintop. I came to it from the bottom of my own life. For years, at stage after stage, I was told I was "crazy." "Too...
