Being in the wellness industry for so long, I’ve begun to notice what can only be described as the “fitness to spirituality pipeline”. I can’t tell you exactly why it happens, only that it does.

Who is bestowing unto us this notion that life is supposed to be bliss and that anything less than an easy, breezy life is cause to raise the alarm?

I reject this expectation.

I reject the incessant pathologizing of the negative aspects of the human experience. Maybe you’re not depressed, maybe you’re just...sad? IT’S OK TO BE SAD. IT’S A THING YOU’R... See more

This idea that we all need to “heal” implies that there’s some ideal, specific state that we’re trying to get to. But what that looks like? Nobody really knows. Except for the guy wearing a deep v-neck, linen pants, and a crystal on a chain around his neck (bonus points for a man-bun)—for $30,000, he can tell you.

Listen, this is not to excuse shitty people or “radical acceptance” as a form of laziness. And it’s certainly not a war cry for “you’re perfect just the way you are”—barf. I’ve microdosed psilocybin (and will again in the future), I meditate, do (and teach) breathwork, journal, love palo santo, and will likely do ayahuasca at some point. But not fr... See more

When we treat emotions like pathologies, we pave the way for exploitation. Now, normal states of being are problems that need to be eradicated. You need more therapy, more plant medicine, more retreats, more cleanses. Everything in your life becomes a diagnoses. But not all of our exes can be sociopaths, not all of our mothers can be have borderlin... See more