human connection series | Episode 2 : healing and mental wellness through connection
Building connections with people, animals, nature, spirituality, and cultural identity is vital for mental and physical health, offering emotional support, fostering healing, and helping to combat loneliness.
death: The bittersweet teacher of life
Death, the hauntingly tragic sister to life, nudges us to contemplate a forbidding reality we often shy away from. Our varying experiences as humans may shape our circumstances differently and grant us varying degrees of opportunities or rights, but the one thing we all have in common is our fated ending. No one is greater than death; no one can escape it. It’s a natural cycle of life, much like the seasons changing and phases of our lives ending. Although our time here on earth is merely temporary, it is perhaps what makes it even more beautiful. In most Western … More
the authentic you:your role as an evolutionist
Through humanity’s expansive journey of conscious evolution there comes a point in time, after a great period of conscious growth, when your self-awareness shifts into high gear. This is the point at which you cross the line from a state of lack to a state of wholeness, or your Authentic Self. Upon this milestone of your personal evolution, you transcend your lower levels of awareness and merge with your higher awareness. As you gradually become an expression of your Authentic Self, you begin to align with life’s evolutionary cycle while assisting others along their journey towards their Authentic Self. In … More
A Handbook for the Curious Heart: Curiosities; Insights, and Thoughtful Prose
A Certain Kind of Longing … Relationships of Scale Nothing is intrinsically right or wrong for everything in place in this world has a place in this world. It is to all things, and our relationship to them on the scale of their attributes, that speaks of a far deeper truth than can be revealed at face value. Objectivity of Mind Learning to detach yourself emotionally in order to observe a situation objectively is the path to clarity and self-understanding. When emotions get in the way there is little room for anything else. Balance We crave the sun when being … More
The Wisdom of Pain
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” -Washington Irving Hello family. Long time no speak. I pray you’ve been well and that life has been finding you easy as of late. Much is going on in the lives of those around me, and I feel compelled to share about my experience with what is possibly the most inevitable aspect of the human condition: Pain. It’s something inescapable. But what is … More
