A Rocky Part of Normal

There’s a zine I’ve been thinking about making for some time now, modeled on a purple and gold composition book I started for myself some years ago. In my notebook are things like the people who hold me down when I feel like I might be drifting away; activities that...

An Always-Available Choice

Last Wednesday morning, sitting at a lovely coffee shop with an even more lovely friend, I drew a version of this on a napkin for him: The bottom triangle was created in the late 1960s by a psychiatrist, Stephen Karpman. A handful of decades later, David Emerald, a...

I’m giving up on being healthy

I’m amazed to realize it was already nearly a decade ago when, early in 2015, I paid a pile of money to have a functional medicine doctor guide me in an elimination diet. I had been having all manner of annoying and uncomfortable symptoms, some for years: A recurrent...

Yoga off the mat

I did an hour of yin yoga over the weekend. If you’re not familiar, yin yoga is a slower yoga, one in which you put your body into what are considered restorative poses. Then, you just stay there… Because it’s not the power yoga that we tend to associate with the...

introducing Death + Stuff

I’ve had a tingling of an idea for some years now… A turning of my coaching practice toward a more overt recognizing of the reality of our mortality and how that reality can clarify what we each mean, as individuals, by our Life Well Lived, our unique version of...

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