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July 29, 2025
"The paradox is, I think people that understand what I’m talking about (and still choose paths that are defined by their hearts and souls) are the safest people on the planet. Why? Because, like me, they’ve chosen to keep it at the tip of the metaphorical sword they hold; lit by conscious attention."
July 28, 2025
"I did all sorts of damage in the first few years of my children’s lives. I carry deep regrets for some of the things that I did. I have apologized profusely to them for my destructive behaviours and I made my best amends by turning inward to confront my demons."
July 22, 2025
"Through the process of clearing, we get an opportunity to find out why we became attached (ie: charged, or triggered) in the first place. It’s typically because a thing the person did (or said), or didn’t do (or didn’t say), reminds us of something unresolved from our past."
July 19, 2025
"I pulled the thread some more and my own work surfaced. I have walked in a thousand dark places, faced my most profound fears, walked into and through my worst physical, mental, and sexual traumas. I developed a capacity to stand in the hottest infernos until they were spent and in that I’ve become an ideal Sherpa for others do the same."
July 17, 2025
"There are as many ways to manage pain as there are humans, but there are universal themes; ways of being that many can agree on. One of those is the donning of metaphorical masks: a psychological framework to cover up the truth of how we actually feel. We think it’s to protect ourselves from the world but what we are really doing is protecting the world from us. We do it because at some point we learned that our truth was not welcome, not wanted, inconvenient."
July 14, 2025
"I realized in that moment that my history was full of moments that I perceived as betrayals. I see how I have operated from the wounding of them in many ways. Each time they happened, my little mind didn’t understand how it could be anything but my fault, so it did the only thing it knew how to do: decide that there must have been something wrong with me. I must have deserved it. As I got older, I leaned on those first perceptions until it just locked in as ‘me’."
March 5, 2025
"I realized it was keeping me from falling completely down the hole of despair that I believed was waiting to swallow me. It chased me relentlessly, nipped at my heals, drove me forward without pause, stole satisfaction from me upon completion of a task, made me believe that enough was never enough."
