Addicted to The Struggle
We’ve built an identity—an industry—around the idea that suffering is what makes the work real.
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Contradictions
If there’s a contradiction, then something isn’t true.
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Self-Responsibility
How to Stop Living in The Contradiction
Do as I say, not as I do. In parenting, it looks like swearing like a pirate while telling your
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How It’s Supposed To Be
To let go of the idea of should, you have to let go of how the world told you the
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Parenting
I Didn’t Know What I Was Doing Then – I Do Now
Back in 2002, when I was pregnant with my daughter, sleep deprivation wasn’t an option. I simply didn’t function on
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Remember Who You Are
There comes a moment when you’re no longer looking for more information—you’re looking for stillness. Truth. A quiet place to
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Fulfillment Is Within
You’ve earned every certificate, aced every course, built a resume that shines. Yet you feel stuck, unfulfilled, unhappy. Why? Because
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Inner Strength
You aren’t strong because the world made you that way. You are strong because you were born that way.
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The Stillhouse
What Is The Stillhouse? A Sanctuary for Radical Freedom and Inner Responsibility
The Stillhouse is a spiritual sanctuary of radical freedom, inner responsibility, and natural law. It’s not a physical retreat you
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Verses & Fragments
The Dark Night of the Soul
The Dark Night of the Soul isn’t depression. Don’t turn it into that.It’s not a mental health crisis—it’s a full
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Self-Mastery
Feelings as Habits
Through my journey with self-mastery, I discovered that feelings can become habits. I was terrified just to exist in my
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Feelings as Habits
When feeling becomes a habit, it stops being guidance. It’s no longer responding to the present, it is simply reminding
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Self-Mastery
The Path to Self-Mastery
Self-mastery is where my journey began over 11 years ago. I started by working on my thinking—learning to pay attention
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Quote by Allen Ginsberg
To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.
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Be In the World
It’s messy and exhausting to live in a world that doesn’t really allow human beings to be in the world
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