Excerpt from F.S. Michaels' book Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything When you conform to the monoculture’s version of who you are and what the world is like, you lose your freedom along with your ability to be truly innovative in terms of your own life.
Acknowledging, getting curious about and integrating the Shadow I’ve been doing some pretty intense shadow work since the pandemic hit. I’ve gone through so many perspective shifts that I honestly can’t recognize who I was before. I can only look back and feel compassion for how lost
The Gauntlet of Healing the Self Initally posted on substack on June 30th, 2024 I'm sharing notes from my healing journey here in the hopes that others experiencing similar issues might be able to find a way through the rough times they encounter. (Photographer: Coriander Woodruff - Model:
"Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future."
-- The idea of introducing a monarchy or aristocracy into this Country, by employing the influence and force of a Government continually changing hands, towards it, is one of those visionary things, that none but madmen could meditate and that no wise men will believe. If it could be done
initially posted on Substack on August 15, 2024 For some reason, I get skittish when I try to clearly visualize what I want my life to look like - Just when I think I have it, all this other bullshit comes up - fucking brian (I call the part of
Initially posted on Substack on October 27th, 2024 Been in pain the last few days, but am seeing and bearing witness to the things I’m doing in my life every day to redirect/reprogram old patterns (the ones that I’m grateful to past me for creating, because they
This was initially posted on Substack on Jan 14, 2025. I’ve constructed an affirmation that I’ll now be saying every night before I go to bed, and every morning once I wake: Every new thing I learn expands my knowledge base, and my understanding of the world around
This was posted on my Substack back on January 15th 2025. Negotiating aging is a journey fraught with much inner distress. Watching my body change is both intriguing and discomfiting. Both of my shoulders are locked up so I have to find new ways of putting on shirts, bras and
What's happening in the US is that there are far too many people in this country who honestly think that if they haven't directly experienced something, it doesn't - or shouldn't exist. This is a crisis of Upper Caste mediocrity having The
In the book Columbus and Other Cannibals, indigenous author Jack D. Forbes lucidly explores a psychological disease that has been informing human self-destructive behavior that Native American people have known about for years. After reading his book, it was clear to me that he was describing the same psychospiritual disease