There’s a quiet power in the language of reparenting, the language of healing, and the journey of becoming your own guru.

For me, this means slowly learning to trust what arises within, your instincts, your gut, your inner knowing. It also means noticing when and how you give that power away.

We often hand our authority to people, places, or things that we’ve unconsciously placed on pedestals. When we elevate others to unreachable heights, we keep ourselves small. The paradox is that as long as we…

When you try to help yourself, sometimes you wonder: is it worth it?

A friend recently shared that she got divorced, and now she questions if it was worth it, her divorce was born our of her awakening to living a life that was not in alignment with who she had become. Her words carried something deeper.

Her struggle, “was it worth it?” is a real one. Every choice comes with both benefits and challenges. Staying the same has benefits. Changing has benefits. Each path also has costs. Often, parts of…

Most weeks I write about the mental and emotional side of healing, because those are the areas many of us feel and notice most immediately. Yet our health is not one-dimensional. The mind and body are in constant conversation. What affects digestion shapes mood, and what affects mood shapes digestion.

This week I want to turn toward the physical, and share about cooking, digestion, and gut healing not as a separate topic, but as part of the same bi-directional influence that runs through every pa…

Hello friends,

Today I want to explore the law of facilitation.

The principle comes from neurology:

When an impulse has passed through a certain set of neurons to the exclusion of others, it will tend to take the same course on a future occasion. And each time it traverses this path, the resistance in the path will be smaller.

In simple terms: the more often you make a choice, hold a perspective, or repeat a behavior, the easier it becomes for your mind and body to do it again. Energy follows the fa…

Where Is Your Mind Welded Shut?

Sit with this slide.

Credit: Paul Chek / CHEK Institute

Let it sink in.

What does it mean for you to see the words: Don’t let your schooling get in the way of your education?

And what does it mean to notice the imagery, humans getting their heads welded shut?

My invitation is simple:

Where is your mind welded shut?

Education and Conditioning

Many of us have spent a tremendous amount of money on education, downloading information based on other people’s ideas, research, and…

And away we go..

When we start looking closely at who we think we are, we often encounter something unexpected: the roles we play in life and the identities we carry with us.

Sometimes they overlap, sometimes they blur together, and sometimes they create confusion.

Am I the role I play?
Am I the story I tell?
Or is there something beneath all of that, something closer to pure experience without complex thought?

Stories, Roles, and Survival

In my work with clients, and in my own life, I’ve noticed that …

Hello friends,

Okay today’s topic feels like a real doozy.

What does “doozy” even mean? Honestly, I’m not sure. But it feels right to use it here, because this is something I’ve had to learn the hard way through the pain of doing the exact opposite of what I’m about to share.

Deflecting, hiding, dissociating, and numbing out can be incredibly painful experiences. Not always the obvious kind of pain, but the subtle kind that siphons away energy little by little. And that energy, once drained, is no …

We take around 22,000 breaths a day.
That’s 22,000 opportunities to nourish our body, calm our mind, and create balance in our system.

It’s also 22,000 opportunities to trigger subtle or not-so-subtle stress.

How Breathing Shapes Your Health

Most of us don’t think about our breath until it’s challenged. But the way we breathe isn’t just about oxygen it impacts our nervous system, our gut, our inflammation levels, and even our capacity for change.

I once received a referral from a highly respected fun…

Hello, friends.

I want to offer a perspective. Not a prescription, not a solution, but an awareness tool. Something you can sit with, explore, and maybe even play with.

This week’s reflection centers on a simple but often uncomfortable truth:

Change comes with both benefits and challenges.

And we tend to forget that.

It’s easy to buy into the fantasy that change, or the process of going after what we want, will deliver only reward. That if we can fix this thing, get over that hurdle, break through th…

I want to begin with a question.

It may seem simple at first glance, but I won’t be explaining it too much because sometimes explanation waters down the potency of a question.

So here it is:

How do you digest life?

And

How does your digestion of life mirror how your body digests food?

Let that settle. Let it marinate. Let it sit with you for longer than a scroll or a sip.

Because I believe this question, when lived with rather than answered too quickly, holds depth beyond information.

It holds transform…