II. Healing is a lifestyle.
Healing takes time. It is going to take your own energy and attention -no one else can do this for you, but they can walk with you and...
I. Creating a pathway of inquiring directly of the body.
I think people waste a whole lot of time and money mucking around trying to “fix” the outward manifestation of the thing, like the...
XII. Contextualization: all of this is your life. There isn’t another life available with this one b
What you believe about yourself and what you make your life mean is contextualized within your own life. There are certain narratives...
X. How we measure our progress on the journey can also hold us stuck.
Measuring your progress by other peoples’ path will almost always result in you feeling smug or shitty. Neither is helpful. Timelines in...
XI. Believing it will be easy blinds us to the real work.
Be wary of someone’s proposed “fix” to your struggle if it seems too easy. This stuff takes time. It takes effort. It can be interesting,...
IX. Holding tight to the goal of happiness can keep you stuck.
Sometimes you look at someone you’ve known for a long time and notice that they look a lot happier than they used to. You wonder what it...
VIII. Shame is a core experience that keeps us trapped.
Shame is an amazing tool for controlling others. As the recipient of this kind of control, shame is devastating to carry around and will...
VII. Belief systems: It’s not just what happens that shapes us, but the beliefs that come from them.
The meaning making that I speak of in the previous section is quite conscious. What I speak of in this section is a different animal, at...
VI. Making everything mean something is exhausting.
Humans are meaning makers. But before people set out on their healing journey or their spiritual journey, I’d love it if they could...
V. The potential arrogance of committing to your healing journey.
Committing to a healing journey, or to an alternative spiritual path can make you, at least at first, feel “better than". We might think,...