WRITING
WILLPOWER VS WILLINGNESS
The problem isn’t willpower alone, it’s how we view it. If we see willpower as something we have to summon, we’re making it this elusive and perhaps even finite resource that’s eventually going to run out when we realise we’re not superheroes, when we can’t do it all, be it all and see it all.
TRAUMA & THE SOUL: FEELING SAFE TO COME HOME
We can literally feel cut off from any sense of depth, compassion or love for ourselves or others, simply because it’s always been too scary for us to go to these places. Up until this point we’ve only known the shallows, pain, and perhaps everything that isn’t love.
WHY PRACTICE GENTLENESS?
It wasn’t until my nervous system forced me to surrender to burn-out that I began to open to the realisation that gentleness is each human being’s inherent and powerful nature.
CHASING THE GHOST OF INTIMACY
Like trying to build a house on sand, we cling so tightly to the potential of who this person ‘could’ be that we lose all connection with the reality of what is.