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Movement

It’s been a while since I’ve shared an update here. Life has been moving slowly, and so have I—but even in that slowness, the work has continued. Most of my energy these past months has gone quietly into the model, piece by piece, breath by breath. I’m finally at a …

The Art of Romantic Love

Love in romantic relationships is a profound and multifaceted experience, encompassing both immense joy and significant challenges. At its worst, it can be deeply painful and disheartening, bringing out the darker aspects of our emotions and experiences, while leaving us feeling vulnerable and wounded. At its best, love is a …

Embracing the Darkness

It’s that time of year, when the days grow shorter, and the darkness grows longer. During this time, we learn to dance with the darkness of nature itself. A time to examine one’s darkness. Embracing our darkness is a journey of profound self-discovery. In the shadows, we find the raw, …

Quiet Desperation

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” – Henry David Thoreau I have been studying, analyzing, and contemplating this quote since I was 16-years-old.  I even wrote two essays on it my junior year in high school, one for history class, the other for advanced English (I still have …

On Darkness

Darkness is
the echo of the past
and the reflection of the future…..

-Ren

Self-respect: The Dynamics Between the Villain and the Victim

If you express extreme self-respect, you may be perceived as selfish, self-invested, or narcissistic – maybe even a villain.  Your reality may be that internally, you are thinking the most self-disrespectful things imaginable; and so externally you must inflate examples of strength to counter the internal, negative, self-thinking.  If a …

Boundaries……

When I was growing up, I never learned what we now refer to as “appropriate” boundaries.  In my world, boundaries were hierarchical.  If you were older you had priority.  If you were male you had priority.  The more priority you had the more free reign you had; as in you …

Trust and Meaning

Humans are meaning-making machines.  What I mean by that is that meaning comes from within.  It comes from inside of you.  Many of us may have spent a lot of our lives looking for meaning from outside of us.  We have this constant stream of thoughts that we are either …