A gift of stories
sometimes we need someone to gift us a story
essays/
mostly edited, structured pieces of writing (in the process of migrating from Medium)
Fighting hopelessness
why depression is so hard to recover from
Understanding mental health with systems thinking
a simple holistic perspective on the complexity and importance of mental health
Getting healthy is really hard
When I first started on my year of experiment, a large part of it was health motivated. I was having painful dry eyes, chronic migraines and anxiety attacks. I would lie awake at…
A personal take on gay marriage rights
on the value of legal recognition
What I learned from cultivating self-compassion
on the relationship between self-compassion and compassion for other people
When kids end their own lives
why we are killing them with a flawed narrative
A year of making anything I want
the ideas, the process, the why and the fine print
How to leave a safe existence
on learning to look at my life as a piece of fabric
Experimenting with my life
a living experiment to see what is the outcome of living a life that is as closely aligned to my philosophy, beliefs and values as possible