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Reflections on therapy, coaching, the nervous system, and the particular difficulty of being a human being in full. Written for curious people doing real work.

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Philosophy

On Not Being Fixed

There is a quiet tyranny in the language of self-improvement — the implication that you are broken, and that the right technique will mend you. But what if the goal was never to be fixed?

November 12, 20247 min readRead →
TOPICS:PhilosophySomatic WorkParts Work / IFSReflectionsShadow WorkTherapy & Coaching
Somatic Work6 min read

The Nervous System Knows

Before language, before narrative, before the stories we tell about why we are the way we are — the body already knows. This is not metaphor. It is neuroscience.

October 28, 2024Read →
Parts Work / IFS8 min read

What Parts Work Taught Me About Self-Compassion

Internal Family Systems changed how I think about the self — not as a unified whole that needs to get it together, but as a family of inner voices, each with its own history and its own wisdom.

October 5, 2024Read →
Reflections5 min read

The High-Functioning Lonely

Some of the loneliest people I know are also the most socially capable. They move through rooms with ease, say the right things, ask the right questions. And then go home and feel utterly unseen.

September 18, 2024Read →
Shadow Work9 min read

On Shadow and the Creative Life

Jung's shadow is not the villain we've made it. It is the unlived life — the parts of ourselves deemed unacceptable and pressed underground. And it has everything to do with creative aliveness.

August 22, 2024Read →
Therapy & Coaching6 min read

Why Insight Isn't Enough

Knowing why you do something has never, in itself, stopped you from doing it. This is not a flaw in psychotherapy — it is an invitation to go deeper than the story.

July 30, 2024Read →
Reflections5 min read

Making Space for Grief

We live in a culture that treats grief as a problem to be managed — a phase to move through quickly, a disruption to be minimized. But grief has its own intelligence, and it asks something of us.

July 8, 2024Read →
Philosophy4 min read

Beginning Again

On the particular courage it takes to start over — in therapy, in life, in the long project of becoming more fully yourself. There is no moment too late.

June 15, 2024Read →

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