One thing that often comes up in therapy is mind-reading—the impulse to guess what others are thinking or feeling. This tendency has deep evolutionary roots. In early human history…

When 2024 was coming to an end, a few people asked if I had resolutions for 2025. I do—I’ve had resolutions every year since 2014 when I read The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin.

We’ve reached the final stage of our alchemical journey: Coagulation. This is where everything we’ve sifted, burned, dissolved, and re-formed comes together in a solid, grounded, and…

As autumn deepens and the year winds toward its close, we come to the alchemical stage of Distillation, a phase that is about refinement—separating what is essential from what is…

As summer’s warmth will start to fade into autumn, we enter the alchemical phase of Fermentation—a stage where our inner work ripens into more transformation, preparing us to emerge…

We have since passed through the stages of Calcination, Dissolution, and Separation, and now we come to Conjunction, a very important phase of alchemy that represents the synthesis…