I write at the intersection of depth psychology, spirituality, politics, tech and culture—exploring the isolating shadows of individualism and how to find meaning in the absence of belonging.
From the archetypal to the personal and political, I explore the nature of deep humanity amidst the cultures we are creating both online and in our communities.
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Post-Mortem: Chasing the Ghosts of Motherhood
Phoenix and I on our last big adventure. Shelter Cove, Lost Coast, CA. 2024. (read posts and access the audio version on my Substack, Unsevered) As I was out walking in my neighborhood [...]
There’s no psychology without awe
And other reasons why TikTok therapy doesn’t work. A crowded field of galaxies: NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (read posts and access the audio version on my Substack, Unsevered) A few weeks ago, [...]
The Psychic, the Therapist, and ChatGPT
How the era of automated "knowledge" is degrading our capacity for insight. (read posts and access the audio version on my Substack, Unsevered) In 2018 I began to hear a fairly clear voice in my [...]
Yearning for Rejection
At the start of this year, lots of people decided that 2026 was the year they were going to be rejected. They set their new year’s resolutions around it, taking to their TikTok accounts and [...]
Working with Collective Darkness
Dear Friends, I write to you on this shortest day of the year in reflection of a solar cycle that can only be described as extraordinary and excruciating. Personally, and collectively. Personally, many of [...]
Indestructible & Unavoidable
Here we are again, friends. Here, at the end of another year and in the dead of winter, at an emptying out point of the year when we enjoy the longest periods of darkness. [...]
Begin with the Beginning in Mind
I’ve been staying in the remote redwoods and rugged shoreline of California’s Lost Coast for nearly a month. It took three whole weeks for my mind, body, and psyche to downshift and find a more [...]
The Dramatic Pause
In 2024, I'm sure we're all exhausted by the unprecedentedness of our times, but in our own lives this might be a (annoying) theme as well. And it forces us into an unfamiliar mode of [...]
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 [...]