Soul Codex
🌳森林浴: Forest Bathing: Immerse Your Five Senses In Nature
Navigate the darker turns of life by staying attuned to your environment and acknowledging your emotions as they arise
Newsletter
The Cartographer of Alchemy: A Newsletter
Mapping the soul work, surrender, and the art of transmutation. Witnessing life’s rawness into meaning through light, shadow, and the unknown.
Soul Codex
30-Day Journaling Challenge: “True North”
a devotional practice for May 2025 to help you ground your creativity path, deepen your voice, and realign with your soul’s quiet instructions.
Soul Codex
The Day I Received a Powerful Healing Message from Bono
How can returning to the song you love kindle your hope, lift your soul, and brighten your doomed days
Reflective Essays
The Melting Glacier
How does remembering my ‘why’ save me from being frozen in a writer’s block glacier (every time)
Reflective Essays
See Life In Nature
A simple and effective everyday practice for a peaceful life
Reflective Essays
Confession of A Hermit Crab
The importance of taking action despite the risk of failure
Existentialism
The Truth Is Never So Simple?
See the nature of reality, and act from a place of a balanced mind
Mapmaker
Without the Light, Darkness Will Rule
A Short note to remind us that we’re not all that we know about ourselves.
Reflective Essays
An Unread Message to My Nephew
Meaningful monologue for our children about the importance of finding their place in the world
The Last One Behind
A short essay on how the flowers remind us that real courage often means moving at our own pace and still being proud of the progress
Reflective Essays
The Special Somewhere (Only We Know)
A sentimental life story about the one we’ll always love (but got away)
Reflective Essays
It’s Complicated
How different does it feels loving our children as a parent, and loving our parent as their children?
Self-Mastery
Leap to the Unknown: A Courage to Self-Discovery
What are the biggest and boldest plunges you took in life that left an impression that shaped who you are today?
Reflective Essays
Why Shame Loneliness?
Yes, I am lonely sometimes, and that's OK
Reflective Essays
Coming Out of a Hiding Place (and Back into the Arena)
On avoiding doing the real work and hiding behind perpetual preparation (with the lame excuse that I need it)
Newsletter
168.2.1 | 2023_WK40 On Being a Resolute Warrior
168 hours have slipped away, leaving our lives that much shorter, what have we accomplished, changed, or how have we expanded? Are we fortified in strength, adorned with newfound happiness, or graced with wisdom? These hours are our canvas—have we painted it with growth?