Humans regulate through connection, not performance. That’s why no amount of achievement can replace genuine connection —to ourselves, our bodies, others, and something larger than success.

When the old way stops working—we’re not broken. We’re being asked to stop performing and start listening inward.

When some people hear the word divinity, they cringe. Others immediately think of religion: gods and saints, temples and texts…

I once believed there was a final destination to reach. What I’ve learned instead is that freedom isn’t about arrival—it’s simply about living with less internal war.

Perfectionism often looks like discipline and ambition, but underneath it’s a learned attempt to stay safe, belong, and avoid emotional threat.

You know that experience of talking to someone who doesn’t get what you’re talking about—maybe even can’t get it—but you both keep going anyway (because both egos want a “win”)?

At some point on the spiritual path, you may come across the phrase “become a hollow bone.” I first heard it in a shamanic ceremony, and the idea has stayed with me ever since.

Change doesn’t just alter your circumstances. It asks you to become someone new.

When I first stepped onto the personal growth path, I kept hearing teachers and healers say things like “trust life” or “trust the universe.” At the time, I was twenty-one. My mom was in the hospital undergoing an experimental bone-marrow transplant, wedged somewhere between life and death . . .

People have been calling me “lucky” my whole life. When I travelled in my twenties, people said, “You’re so lucky.” When I reinvented my life in my thirties, people said, “You’re lucky—I don’t have that kind of freedom”…

More times than I can count, I’ve found myself in that uncomfortable in-between space—no longer who I was, but not yet who I was becoming. When things fall apart, it’s easy to assume you’re off track. But often, it’s the opposite…

I have a client who struggles with resentment at his workplace. Recently, we did an exercise where I asked him to look at a challenging situation through two different lenses…

Most of us want a clear end goal.We crave certainty, a guaranteed outcome.But creativity (and life) don’t work that way.

Six years ago, we asked ourselves a question: What would we do if we weren’t afraid? Five months later, we’d hit the road with two suitcases, launching six years of vagabonding.

This week a client told me, “I’ll finally feel happy again when this deal closes.” Who among us hasn’t said something like that?

Thirty years ago, everything I thought I knew unraveled. Loss cracked me open and sent me searching for answers…

I spent years chasing goals—degrees, jobs, even spiritual milestones—only to find achievement didn’t bring the fulfillment I expected. Eventually I came to this…

There’s a great Rumi quote: “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” We want to believe clarity has to come first—but, in my experience, it’s the reverse.

Did you know your body can literally sync with the frequency of trees? Not metaphorically. Not poetically. Literally.

Who doesn’t love feeling productive? But when does healthy drive tip into chronic overdoing?