Bellows Breath – Bhastrika (coffee without the jitters)
Let’s talk about that 3pm slump where your brain feels like mashed potatoes and another [...]
The 4-7-8 Breath (your pocket tranquilizer)
Dr. Andrew Weil calls this “a natural tranquilizer for the nervous system.” I call it [...]
Box Breathing for When Your Brain’s Being a Dick
Look, we need to talk about your brain being an absolute nightmare sometimes. You know [...]
The Traders of Joy (how the happiness industry gaslights You)
There’s a $6.3* trillion industry selling permanent happiness to a species that would be institutionalized [...]
Brainwashing vs Influence (the spectrum from persuasion to mind control)
You’re here, maybe late at night, because something’s changed. Maybe it’s your daughter who went [...]
Gaslighting (when they rewrite your reality and make you thank them for it)
You’re reading this, maybe because you googled something at midnight, maybe somthing like: “am I [...]
The Pleasure You Gave Up for No Reason (I found it when cooking at home)
Somewhere we decided cooking was a chore. Another task between laundry and emails. Something to [...]
The Scam That Keeps You Helpless in Your Own Kitchen
The wellness industry has a dirty secret: if you learned to cook, they’d go bankrupt. [...]
The Emotional Intelligence They Don’t Wants You to Have
Emotional intelligence has become one of those terms that makes me want to throw things. [...]
Toxic Positivity (and the exhausting performance of being fine)
Toxic positivity is when expressing any emotion besides happiness becomes a moral failing. When “how [...]
Spiritual Bypassing (the art of using enlightenment to avoid your shit)
You’ve probably met her. She meditates two hours a day, goes to every retreat, quotes [...]
It Gives Me Away
You can train your face, your voice, your posture. You can get so good at [...]
How to Find Inner Peace (without meditation or toxic positivity)
Listen, I’m going to be straight with you. If you’re here looking for another article [...]
Is Anti-Aging a Scam? (the truth on getting older after 50)
I’m not Anti-aging. I’m not Pro-aging. I’m just aging (and so are you) The entire [...]
How to Stop Overthinking (for people whose brains won’t shut up)
The Problem Nobody Talks About Honestly You know that moment deep at nigh when you’re [...]
Where to Begin (when you don’t know who you are anymore)
Where to begin when you don’t even know who you are anymore? Someone asked me: [...]
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Auto-Edit (regret, rumination, self-blame)
Auto-Edit is a poem about regret, rumination, and self-blame, the mind reopening old files and [...]
When My Garden Saved Me from Gray
In Massachusetts, winter isn’t just cold – it’s gray. Endless, relentless gray that seeps into [...]
Before the Match Strikes (grief, anger & the love beneath it)
Grief… You don’t get over it. You carry it. Some days it’s sadness, some days [...]
When Love Needs to Burn (a raw truth about the anger stage of grief)
Why am I so angry while grieving? If you’ve been asking yourself this question, you’re [...]