So what’s the point of being human in the first place? — In spiritual circles, there often seems to be this mad rush to transcend our lowly human nature and physical form. The goal of reaching enlightenment is lionized, and the simple pleasure of being a soul inside of a mortal human body is downplayed to a tremendous extent. What happens if…

The answer is right under your nose — Oh no! You did it again! Fell into the trap of people-pleasing, to your own detriment, and agreed to do something you didn’t really want to do. All because (subconsciously) you just wanted the person who asked you to be happy. Dammit! How does this happen to you all the…

It’s in of all of us. Time to heal & find balance from the inside out. — I’ve been posting a lot of ideas lately. On Instagram, LinkedIn, even on Twitter !— which up til recently I had avoided like the plague. Why? Because I’m slowly figuring out what it is I want to say.

Just keeping it real here, folks. The real riches might not be in the earnings, but in the person who writing turns you into. — Ok, writers. There are a bunch of posts on growing a following here on Medium. Here’s one that's transparent, and minus any hype. Getting started I started writing on the platform back in 2018. I was freelancing and wanted a place to express my creative thoughts. I was visiting family in Colorado…

Yes, you little imaginary guru — trying is just as valid as doing. — In our culture today, who doesn’t secretly want to be a Jedi? My parents took me to the theater for the grand opening of the very first Star Wars movie back in 1976. I was only a few months old, so I don’t really remember much from that screening. …

And which do you think has a deeper impact on your readers? — Hey team Feminist. Got a minute? I have two real, honest, heart to heart questions for y’all about the flavor of content you prefer to consume. I’m also curious what you think is the most effective approach to creating real change? Would you rather write a sizzling hot, ferociously angry…

One right way? Or the lessons learned from each single human experience? — Perhaps there is no such thing as one ultimate truth. I myself, believe truth can come in many forms. If truth is the end result of paying attention to lessons learned from being human here on earth — then we’re each going to have a slightly different version of it. …

Overcoming the cultural domestication of resisting this eventual inevitability — What did people do before modern medicine promised to save them from dying? Before scientifically informed anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and anti-pathogenic protocols became the expected norm? Before birth and death alike fell prey to becoming medicalized traumas, inflicting untold pain and suffering in the attempt to outrun the very same thing?

Why needing help from others, and showing vulnerability is coded OUT of our most common understandings of masculinity. — TLDR: If more guys trained in the traditional fighting arts (with good teachers, not that Cobra Kai crap) maybe they’d find out that self- compassion and empathy are attitudes of the strongest men. Not the weakest. The guys were just watching the football game My writing friend Ed Frauenheim told me the other day about an incident. …