What is the mental health equivalent of stubbing your toe? What is the mental health equivalent of catching a cold? What’s the mental health equivalent of packing a healthy lunch? What’s the mental health equivalent of wearing a seatbelt or driving (approximately) the speed limit? What’s the mental health equivalent…

Feel outside the body is a corollary to “think outside the brain.” Think outside the brain means your cognitive and intellectual capacity is directly affected by people, places, things, and actions that take place outside the physical limitations of the head: skull and skin. Maybe you do your best, most…

Here’s my attempt at a unified theory of everything as of today, September 9, 2021. I got here after 46+ years. And lots of looking, listening, reading, watching, talking, feeling, exploring, enduring, releasing, etc-ing. Maybe it’ll change tomorrow. But, and, and/but (my favorite kind of “and”), here is something that zips, zings and rings true: The gorgeous, amazing dream is possible via this path:

Self. It’s a thing. We are individuals. And we are herd animals. Being part of the group is part of our nature. Like bees, humans don’t do so well all on their own. However, many people in our times, believe they should “do it all” themselves. If you don’t do…

1. Flex your bare toes in the dirt and wrap your dusty hands around the axe handle. (Writing checklist.) Does it include: Things Pictures Symbols Turns of phrase Metaphors 2. Stand in the heat of the approaching forest fire. What are the: Problems Conflicts Actions Details & Specifics Analogies 3. Inspire others to come to your front line. Are you, is it: Organized Inventive Useful/Helpful Aesthetically pleasing

Your journey includes words, concepts, vagaries. Please make sense of stuff in a way that works for you. But, hear me out. The antidote to depression is Okayness, not happiness. Okayness is when the depression abates, enough, or when it is out of the way enough. …

Short and sweet. Here’s some stuff I base my work on: I’ve seen enough. I know behind closed doors everyone’s got deep, real challenges. Everyone. The most important thing in your life is people. The most effective thing in creating connection is vulnerability. Never seen anything better. The amazing thing you seek happens inch by inch, in fits and starts, over time. So it requires authenticity and consistent effort.

Hi, Lotsa folks are all kinds of stuck. Check out these fine puppies (and by “puppies” I mean tips to getting unstuck.) Beginner Level 0. Hey, just skip beginner level. 😉 Intermediate Level 1–7 1. 10 Minutes of Babbling Brilliance Write 10 minutes on the following questions, doesn’t have to…

The sun glows and burns on a time scale so large it’s virtually forever. The energy is within. The sun is your metaphor for your internal drive. A brick house is built piece by piece. A bricklayer slots in one at a time, reaching over to the stack, grabbing a…