What Regulation Made Possible
'Self-mastery' may be having enough capacity to pause before choosing.
Testing Frameworks
Discovering things I couldn't learn any other way.
The Weight of Wind
Wind isn't just weather—it's a nervous system reset tool.
What We Carry: Distinguishing Protection from Habit
When the nervous system regulates, you start to feel the difference: protection vs. habit. Some burdens are information. Others are just weight.
When Practices Change: Adapting Rituals for Real Life
The ones that stay teach us how to adapt without abandoning yourself.
Grind-Induced Zero Day: Paying for Aliveness
Three straight days pushing hard on steep trails. Day four hit like payment due. Living fully with chronic illness means choosing aliveness — and paying for it.
What Reaches Anyway
Not all strength defends. Some just grows.
Carried by the Unstable
You don’t need solid ground to keep moving.
You Don't Have to Be Fully Healed to Belong Outside
You don't have to earn the trail. If you're alive, grieving, in pain, you belong. Healing isn't a finish line. It's a walk you take, as you are.
The Body Can Forgive
I silenced its warnings and punished its limits. And yet, it's still here.