Personal Reflections & Check-ins

10 Jun

Pressure Is Not the Enemy — Unbounded Pressure Is

And when the thief of comparison slips in, when someone else’s perception tries to overwrite my own lived truth, it disrupts the small glimmers of joy I’ve earned. Confidence wavers. Sentience blurs. Navigating that monster — and the smaller monsters orbiting it — carries a cost I still don’t...

11 May

Presence Over Perfection

Most people think care is a feeling. It isn’t. It’s a discipline — the quiet, unglamorous work of showing up where the world looks away. The ones who matter don’t rush to fix or judge. They sit in the mud with you until your eyes adjust. They bring a...

27 Apr

A rearview glimpse – seeking clarity to move forward

Hansel and Gretel Some stories only reveal their true shape when you return to them with older eyes. Hansel and Gretel is one of those stories for me. As a child, I inherited the faith‑polished version: the witch as hellfire,

18 Apr

Grief, Stoicism, and the Strange Work of Carrying What We Lose

A heart that’s been broken is a heart that’s been loved. One line from a song, but it names something I keep circling back to: grief doesn’t follow rules. It doesn’t care about your training cycle, your calendar, or the

14 Apr

A post during Neurodiversity Awareness Month

Rabbit hole post – A recent Stand4Kind post talked about the power of simple mental‑health check‑ins — naming what’s happening inside before it spirals. That’s what this practice has become for us: a way to help our kids map their

03 Apr

🌱 Spring, Weight, and Where Neutrality Actually Falls

Follow the White Rabbit! As I consider the spring cycle — Ostara, Pesach, Passover, Easter, the close of Ramadan, and the long exhale at the end of Lent — I came across this quote and went down a small rabbit‑hole

03 Apr

Exile, Identity, and the Space Between Chapters

Upgrading the “pause before reacting” module—now with smoother handoffs between awareness and restraint Napoleon said, “Exile is worse than death,” and he wasn’t being poetic. He was naming a truth that sits uncomfortably close to the bone for anyone who’s

02 Apr

Ryan Holiday riffing on a LinkedIn post

A good set of reminders from RH on LI. This is a link to the content on LinkedIN so over time it may decay and become unavailable.

28 Mar

Scarcity Loop – Practice Mindfulness

Step 3: Practice Mindfulness In Chapter 6 of Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter, titled Step 3: Practice Mindfulness, Easter emphasizes mindfulness as a powerful tool to break free from the “scarcity loop”—a cycle of craving and consumption driven by our