You know how the story goes. You identify an event, an experience, or a rite of passage. And, you have convinced yourself, to the depth of your soul, that this particular event/experience/rite of passage will be it. You will be transformed. …

If you are not working with someone to integrate your psychedelic experience, you are missing a powerful opportunity to transcend that psychedelic experience. Psychedelics can offer more than visual and auditory entertainment. Psychedelics can offer more than euphoria. Psychedelics can offer more than escape from boredom. Psychedelics can connect you…

I don’t know what it is. Something’s different. I don’t know. It feels different. I can’t articulate it. Most other people can’t tell. I still drive (too) fast. I’m still witty. (At least I think I’m witty). I’m still driven. Yet something’s different. I am not numb. In fact…

I have been clear in my articles and in my book, “Come As You Are: Meditation & Grief,” about what people can do to support grieving people. There are a great number of products that provide no use whatsoever, including sympathy cards, donations made in a person’s name, hug emojis…

“Why are you so angry?” That same person who attempted to invalidate the truth about grief by pinning it on “my journey” attempted to gaslight me by labeling me as angry. I am a direct, tell-it-like-it-is, blunt kind of guy. …

Challenges, Crossroads In his book “Never Finished,” David Goggins tells the story of the Leadville Trail 100 Run (aka The Race Across The Sky) in 2019. In his book Goggins describes how, as the race went on, a support person who was following him and had poles with them offered him the…

”It’s your journey — everyone is different.” It was inevitable that in writing the book, “Come As You Are: Meditation & Grief,” and the subsequent articles on grief and loss over the past couple of years, I would piss off my friends. After all, I am writing about grief and loss, and I am using my own…

There have been a number of people in my life who have reacted negatively to these articles on grief. Their response is either to ghost me, gaslight me, or argue their grief myth with me. …

I have just returned home after having traveled to Florida and back to bury Brian’s ashes there. I write this because I was once again struck with people’s complete ignorance about grief and what it is all about. I write this because there appears to be confusion about my motivation…