About my own developmental and healing journey

Ideally, you continue to evolve for the rest of your life, discovering and refining ever more complex skills and novel capacities. I view healing as the process of removing obstacles that hinder our natural human development. Deep connection, intimate belonging, and meaningful participation in this life is my wish for everyone

I left a conventional path by dropping out of college at 19. I left because a deep sense of wrongness, apathy, and confusion had become normal.

This decision led me to immersive explorations in identity, reality, and humanity. I confronted the discomfort of recognizing the inaccuracy of my beliefs and worldview, which became a recurring theme. Around age 20, my self-directed education took shape through non-dual wisdom teachings, regular psychedelic ceremonies, and somatic mindfulness practices. It was a tumultuous time filled with big openings, mind-shattering insights, and unstable emotional cycles that resulted from my inability to integrate these expanded experiences meaningfully into my life.

Meeting my wife at 22, a new stage of deep relational learning commenced. My high-flying spiritual insights couldn’t contend with her sensitive bullshit detector. This resulted in lots of repressed emotional issues that had nowhere to hide. Our relationship grounded my personal development and expanded my interests in social and global issues and the multi-layered crises we face as a collective.

I dove into the works of modern philosophers and scholars, developing a growing understanding of the complex systemic challenges, game theoretics, and potential solutions in a global context. 

I recognized that many of my problems and our collective problems originate from deep psychosomatic blockages that distort healthy human development. I read all the books on IFS (Internal Family Systems Therapy) and pursued a 2-year training in the Hakomi Therapy Method, a mindfulness-based somatic psychotherapy.

There are of course many more experiences and countless teachers that have deepened and expanded my understanding. To see a list of other formative experiences I’ve held or participated in over the years, and the teachers & mentors I give thanks to click here.

My depth-oriented Hakomi work now intertwines with Ken Wilber’s Integral Life Practice offering a profoundly holistic approach to self-evolution and individual healing based on the most comprehensive maps of human potential and psychotherapeutic frameworks we currently have.

Healing is a process of untangling inner psychosomatic knots that halt natural human development. It is both an intimately personal and collectively shared process. The interiors and the exteriors are truly not separate.  I hope everyone I work with feels three steps further along, with a spiritual brother and resources beside them, as they evolve towards a more integrated, empowered, and authentic life.