Letting Go, Without Leaving

Letting Go, Without Leaving

Love is an exquisite contradiction: two selves guarding their edges while daring to dissolve, a dance that forbids ownership yet invites surrender. It grows by giving away what it cannot keep, attention, freedom, responsibility, until intimacy becomes the art of...
Unbranded Presence

Unbranded Presence

“Woke” and “un‑woke” are just brand labels for a shelf I used to shop from when I outsourced my reflection to other people’s eyes. For years, I lived inside a high‑budget movie about me, well lit, well scored, and not real until presence walked onto the set and asked...
Unmasking the Metrics

Unmasking the Metrics

We’re curating ourselves into mannequins. We’ve gotten so good at pretending that the performance now feels like the person. Polished outrage, curated humility, compassion with a call‑to‑action button. The timeline scrolls like a city of mannequins rehearsing...
Editing the Inner Voice

Editing the Inner Voice

Presence isn’t a finish line; it’s a language I relearn every day, one word of self‑talk at a time. Some mornings it’s fluent, other days it’s broken, and that inconsistency used to scare me until I realized growth sounds choppy before it sounds clear. Freedom, for...
The cover is easy; the content takes courage

The cover is easy; the content takes courage

(Note to self): Emile Zola’s line hits hard: most will see the cover, a few will skim the intro, and even fewer will sit with the chapters. Ego loves predictability, so it labels quickly, yet humility asks for a pause, a breath, and a sincere “What’s your story?”...