What are you not doing this week?

It’s not downtime, I call it depth time .

silence is generative

Each of us is destroying our health because we believe consistency means constant.

It’s not the absence of mind, but the presence of body.

Depression and anxiety often manifest as dissociation, a floating above your physical self. Dance is the opposite. It’s full occupancy of the flesh.

the deliberate act of moving your body to music as a practice

This year I’ve been practicing the art of the ugly first draft. The prototype that barely functions. The essay that doesn’t know what it wants to say yet. It’s not because I’ve lowered my standards, but because I’ve learned that excellence emerges from iteration, not immaculate conception

Our prefrontal cortex loves planning because it creates the illusion of control. But creative work requires us to surrender that control and just begin. You can’t plan your way into flow. You stumble into it by starting.