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I have to remind myself that everyone has different online habits that work for them. I have friends who post and tweet all day, feel genuinely invigorated by it (it seems), and get rewarded for that energy. For some time, I tried to make that work for me too, wondering why it

These days, many aspiring and even established coaches try to become writers to build their practice. Understandably so. But most of the content stays tightly bound to coaching-adjacent topics, resulting in a flood of formulaic essays and vulnerability porn. Occasionally, when

Could be selection bias, but I’ve never seen a man genuinely thriving while regularly consuming weed

An underrated sign that spiritual practice is working—and honestly, one of the things to hope for—is when you hear someone describe how hard it is to deal with certain thoughts, emotions, or relational patterns, and you realize: oh, I still kinda have all of that too… it just

Our boy is one now, so we've been taking him to Gymboree, swim class, baby bounce, and I'm watching his face absolutely light up as he does these activities with other babies, Grace right there with him, and I'll just start fucking crying and crying with no thoughts running, I

Addiction is what happens when the hunger for transcendence has nowhere to go

Turns out, babies are excellent meditation teachers. For anyone wondering how parenting and practice go together, I was grateful to contribute a piece to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review for their Father’s Day offerings. Happy (early) Father's day, my friends tricycle.org/article/a-medi…

This is about to be the most epic contribution to the scene

This was one of the most meaningful pieces I've had the chance to write. They sent me a gift link for my readers - if you wanted to read this but got paywalled, DM me!

If you have experience using classic psychedelics or ibogaine in combination with 12-Step practices to support your recovery, one of my colleagues is conducting a study with UCSF that needs more participants. If that's you, DM me for the link! You'll get a gift card :)

We’re going to need more funding to understand this phenomenon

A good way to handle this is to lightheartedly say something like, “I’m in retirement from boozing”

“That’s been the miracle of parenting: the way it yanks you out of your head and plants you firmly in life. Just like meditating, you cannot parent conceptually.” —Alex Olshonsky (Alex Olshonsky) tricycle.org/article/a-medi…

Whoa, way more people submitted for this than ancitipated. Very happy to see such interest in Hakomi and somatics… I’d like to find a way to give everyone interested a taste, but tapped out for now

Grace and I won the 4th of July water balloon toss for the second year in a row, this time with an expanded and competitive field AMA

Current status

Ran into this quote from David Hawkins, based on his research, and something in my heart rearranged: “One individual who vibrates to the energy of pure love can counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 who do not.” (You don’t have to buy the math for the idea to work on you)

Chronic doom-scrolling can become its own form of addiction, binging on disaster-oriented content This produces *narcotizing dysfunction*: when exposure to constant information about problems gives the illusion of being "engaged," but actually numbs us into passivity