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For the last year or so I’ve been lightly studying Buddhism, mostly through author Pema Chodron. I fell in love with the intersecting ideas of both diving deep and remaining detached. It is such an interesting way to live, if one can master it, and it really all comes down to the stories we tell….

Why aren’t we all allowing ourselves to live in our natural state of joy? Why don’t we realize that it is our own resistance that makes us so unhappy in the long term? It is totally possible to not resist unhappiness and get right back to happy relatively quickly, almost every time. Shit Happens: Joy…

What is happening around the world is so much more than a pandemic. And on many levels, I have to say, I am glad for it. We are entering a true leveling up of humanity, and it is amazing to watch it finally unfold. I have been feeling the tremors of this eruption for more…

Sometimes, broken is just broken. There was no repair for my parents’ marriage. My mom tried everything. I was 13 the first time I begged my mother to leave my stepdad. My baby brother had just been born, my sisters were 10 and 3, and we were all terrorized. “Please, Mom. Please. Just leave him….

Words matter. Now more than ever, in a time of keyboard warriors and social justice shouters, words matter. And the primary words of this global pandemic come, like many major events, in a set of three. Three phrases: stay home, stay inside, and social distancing. The problem with these three phrases is that they are…

Relax. It’s Friday. I know. I know. All the days seem to blend together in a blur of worry and stress right now. You’re home with kids or a spouse, or both. You have plenty of toilet paper, or none at all. And you’re on social media constantly, or not at all. Extremes are par…

It does. It always works out. You don’t want to hear it right now. I know I rarely want to hear it when I’m in the middle of being terrified about some unexpected occurrence, large or small. But it does indeed always work out. The reason I freak out, the reason most of us freak…

Once you set foot onto the path to enlightenment, stepping off is deeply painful. Where you were angry before, now you feel bursting with rage. Where you were sad before, now you feel abject depression. Where you were lost in thought before, now you feel pure ennui. At first, you think, “well fuck. This is…

I have been reaching ever heightening levels of bliss lately. Yes, of course, like everyone else on earth, I have peaks and valleys. But because of the very deep soul searching I have been doing on my path to enlightenment, I find my peaks so much higher and my valleys an opportunity to do some…