Essays and insights on the nature of consciousness, from the archetypal to the personal and political, centered on how we live and work, and the cultures we’re creating.
In addition to reading below, you can also listen to some of these posts as audio essays here on my podcast channel, Again, but with Feeling.
Some untrendy wisdom for your hardest days.
~ Lately it seems like every time I check in with an old friend, I hear about how they've been going through some extraordinarily tough life experience during the last six months or so. I'm [...]
Expansion > Growth in 2024
Well, welcome to 2024. You made it. I made it. Incredibly we all got through 2023, which was a ride. And this new year is coming in strong with some trends of its own, I think [...]
It’s not you. It’s us.
Dear friends & clients, As I start down the path of writing my dissertation (on the cultural complex of individualism and the epidemic of loneliness in the American psyche), I have been reading Johann Hari’s [...]
(Maternal) Ambivalence, Myopia, and the Plague of Analysis Paralysis
[To listen to an audio version of this post, click here or search for "Again, but with Feeling" wherever you get your podcasts.] I was never the kid that dreamed of having babies. I didn’t [...]
Growing Down: Avoidance, Decay and the Riches of Depressive Cycles
To listen to an audio version of this post, click here. For the last several months I’ve been battling a mealybug infestation in one of my favorite houseplants. It’s an awful icky plague that leaves [...]
The Weight of Assumed Potential [New Year Newsletter]
I rarely enjoy the start of January. When everyone is off making resolutions, doing rituals, and displaying a general sense of optimism, I have a heavy bog of existential dread that washes over me. Over the last [...]
There’s No Method to Your Madness
How is your New Year so far? Personally, this part of the year is always accompanied by a psychic darkness. I feel disoriented about which way is up, and I am constantly questioning each step [...]
Meaninglessness in America
In Western culture and particularly in the United States, we are in the “in between times.” Religion as an external organizing principle for internal spirituality and meaning has waned in significance over the last half [...]
Meaninglessness & the Human Condition
“We’re all in search of an adequate biography.” – James Hillman, paraphrased This week I read a passage that made me blush. And no, not in a coy, cute way. In that red hot flushed [...]