I carry many roles: therapist and counsellor, volunteer, graduate student, reader, climber, and mountaineer; and many good people: my mentors, from priests to psychiatrists, philosophers, and classical authors; and many small lights, drawn from the darkest moments of many stories, which I hope can help you feel less alone during your more difficult passages.
I hope what you find here meets you where you are and offers something useful, gentle, and strong as you move forward.
“And if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.” — The Gestalt Prayer, Fritz Perls
you can choose
to expand your imagination, further your steps, reimagine your pain.
You can choose to believe you are one of the lucky ones. You can choose to turn your attention toward that belief, again and again. You can choose to practice it in the small, ordinary acts of living. And, in time, you may find yourself living it as something true.
you are made for living.
Let it in. We can try.
Courage grows from the smallest brave choices. Clarity can come when you give space to your thoughts. Calm is possible when you return to your breath.
Your inner world expands when you pause, observe, reflect, and respond.
There may be ten steps, but they are lifelong steps.
The nourishment of the mind and soul, like nutrition and exercise, may never be 100% perfect, yet it can still accumulate into meaningful, positive results.
Like all things that truly matter— optimal health, full love, your raison d’être, transcendence, a clear state of mind, that sense of Zen— they often remain on the horizon. Ironically, we can only try, and try again. (we must imagine Sisyphus happy)
Life’s beauty is found not only in growth, but also in the quiet moments of stillness, when you allow yourself grounded presence, acceptance, and kindness,