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Notes fromAdelaide.
Long-form pieces on the framework, the research, and the questions still forming underneath the work. Read at the pace of the breath, not the feed.
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May 13, 2026 · 6 min read
When self-compassion stops working
Kristin Neff's work on self-compassion is genuine and valuable. It also has a ceiling, and a lot of people are hitting it without knowing what is happening. Here is when the practice stops landing — and what comes next.
Read→May 11, 2026 · 6 min read
The difference between a feeling and a thought
Most of what you think you feel is actually what you think about a feeling. The two are not the same, and learning the distinction is one of the most underrated nervous-system skills there is.
Read→May 9, 2026 · 7 min read
Insight versus integration
Insight is when you understand the pattern. Integration is when the pattern no longer runs. The distinction matters more than almost anything in this work — and most personal development conflates them.
Read→May 7, 2026 · 7 min read
The polyvagal ladder, plainly
Stephen Porges's polyvagal theory has become wellness shorthand. The real version is more useful than the simplified one. Here is the plain version, with the practical move at each rung.
Read→May 5, 2026 · 8 min read
What Human Design actually is (and is not)
Human Design is not a personality test. It is not astrology with extra steps. It is a system architecture for how your specific nervous system was built to operate — and most of the content circulating about it gets the basics wrong.
Read→May 3, 2026 · 6 min read
The settle
Before any nervous system can be rewritten, it has to be safe enough to be inside. This is the work of the settle — the slowest, most underrated, most consequential move in the entire arc.
Read→May 1, 2026 · 9 min read
Why I do not call this manifestation
Manifestation says: change your thoughts, change your reality. The body has been ignored. The mechanism has been ignored. Here is what is actually happening when reality 'meets' you — and why naming it correctly changes whether it works.
Read→April 29, 2026 · 8 min read
The heart's electromagnetic field is real. Here is what it means.
Your heart broadcasts a measurable electromagnetic field several feet from your body. Other nervous systems pick up your signal before they pick up your words. Here is the science — and what to do with it.
Read→April 27, 2026 · 10 min read
What the CIA Gateway Process report actually says
In 1983, the U.S. Army commissioned the CIA to investigate whether consciousness could alter physical reality. The report was declassified in 2003. The finding has been mostly forgotten. Here is what it actually says — and what it means for the work I do.
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