Whispers of a Warrior

The question isn't "what are your goals for next year?" It's "what are you still carrying from this one?"

We're approaching the end of another year. And if you're like most people, you're already starting to feel the pressure.

The "New Year, New You" messaging is ramping up. The ads for gym memberships, and organization systems, and self-improvement programs are flooding your feed. Everyone's talking about goals, resolutions, and fresh starts.

But here's what nobody's asking: What are you car...

The heaviest thing we carry isn't what it actually is. It's what we think should be.

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn't come from doing hard things. It comes from living under the constant weight of expectations—the ones we place on ourselves and the ones we carry about how life and people should show up.

It's the bone-deep weariness of constantly measuring reality against an invisible standard. Of being perpetually disappointed. Of trying to force what is into the shape of w...

Your mind will keep you safe. Your soul will set you free. But between them lies a landscape most people never learn to navigate.

Close your eyes for a moment.

Ask yourself a question. Any question about your life right now.

Now feel—actually feel, don't think about feeling—where that question landed in your body.

Did it bounce around in your skull like a pinball, ricocheting between thoughts? Did it drop into your chest and settle there, heavy with longing? Did it sink into your belly and c...

The question isn't "what's wrong with me?" It's "how good can this get?"

There's a question most of us never think to ask. We're too busy asking the other ones. The familiar ones."What's wrong with me?" "Why does this keep happening?" "When will things finally get easier?" "What did I do to deserve this?"

We've been conditioned to look for what's broken. To search for the flaw. To assume that if things aren't working, something must be fundamentally wrong with us.

But what if the question tha...

Vibration is what you feel. Frequency is who you become.
Understanding the difference? That changes everything.

My son loves Moana. We've watched it together more times than I can count, and there's this moment when Maui explains what it means to be a Wayfinder that always sticks with me.

"We read the stars, the ocean, the wind."

Not following a map. Not relying on external directions. Wayfinding means navigating by reading signs that most people never notice. That's exactly what you're do...

Sometimes, the most rebellious thing we can do is question what we were taught to never question. Sometimes the most revolutionary thing we can do is speak kindly to ourselves.

There’s a weight you’ve been carrying that isn’t yours.

It was handed to you before you had words. Before you had a choice. Before you even knew, you were learning rules about how to be, how to feel, how to move through the world.

Your parents gave it to you. They got it from their parents. Who got it from theirs. ...