Category: Behind the Scenes
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A Love Letter to All Moms: The Myth of Doing it Right
It’s 6:59 p.m. and I’m power-walking the twenty feet from my backyard office to the house. In that short stretch of grass, I shed one identity and step into another. Inside waits a one-year-old whose diaper smells like he’s been fermenting a new life form, two forever-hungry teens looking for…
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Psychology and Magic: How Jung, Somatics, and the Body Brought Me Back to Wonder
I didn’t study psychology to conjure wonder. I studied it to diagnose my damage. I wanted a map of what was broken—something clinical, clean. Something that would finally explain why I was so strange, so intense, so… off. I thought if I could name the pathology, I could fix it.…
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A Quick Note on AI Use and the Evolution of this Blog
It’s been a little while since I’ve written here consistently. Part of that pause was me listening to my own advice about stepping back from the hustle and making choices that support balance. I’ve been pouring energy into many different creative projects, and recently I decided it was time to…
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The Heart and Vision Behind Rising Rooted
Rising Rooted didn’t start as a business idea or a clear plan. It started much more quietly than that, as I tried to understand myself and the world around me—and slowly realized that the kinds of spaces I was looking for didn’t quite exist in the ways I needed them…