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Another Egg Hatches
When I was writing my first book, The Bipolar Bodhisattva, and adding all of the art, I kept thinking about how I really wanted to add interpretation to the art. However, the book was already at the bursting point, coming in at nearly 158,000 words, well over double what most publishers will accept, and that’s…
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The Egg Hatches
I have just achieved a major accomplishment. Yesterday, I made my book, The Bipolar Bodhisattva, public on my site. It is a mental health and spirituality memoir covering fifteen years of my blog posts, in addition to supplementary material never before seen. It sits at the intersection of trauma recovery, Dharma studies, and Jungian psychology.…
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Fuck It, Good Enough
My therapist has two favorite phrases: “fuck it” and “good enough”. Lately, I’ve become fond of putting them together into a single “fuck it, good enough”. Consequently, there are some areas of my life that have gotten much easier because I’m not constantly holding myself to an apparently unreasonable (and unreachable) standard, something for which…
