A Mentor’s Death

On one of my recent trips, I flew through Miami International Airport. I had been through, or more like ran through, it some weeks ago, but this time I had a longer layover. Many folks were still masked in the terminals. While I was walking around to find coffee and grub with my travel companion [...]

I’m not doing well

For a variety of reasons. And I had a pretty disturbing experience at the tail end of my walk yesterday that I can't get out of my head. [actually no pun intended... weird] I was walking down the main drag of the town back to the apartment. And I saw a snake in the road. [...]

No seascape Saturday this week. Though, I guess the ocean and its cycles do mirror life and its cycles. Death can seem so heavy, though I guess it doesn’t always have to be. It often serves as a glaring reminder of how finite this phase of life is and that you should make it a [...]

Therapists Receiving Therapy

I am a firm believef that good therapists receive their own therapy to become more and more self-aware and to never stop growing/pushing their growing edge. My own therapy started many years ago at a very bad time in my life when I thought my anxiety was going to take over and I would have [...]

Wellness Wednesday: Grief

My new year started off pretty grand with dancing and fun, but then when I woke up I learned that I had to say goodbye to one of my best friends that happens to have fur. I've been through this before, 4 times to be exact, but it never gets easier. I sort of knew [...]

A Childhood Friend’s Passing

Having moved around so much ... I lost touch with a lot of people and was out of the loop evidently. A guy I used to be very close with in middle school/high school died in a car crash in May and I just found out late last night. We lost touch, but followed each [...]

Wellness Wednesday: Guilt, Shame, and Forgiveness

June 6th is always a hard date/anniversary for me. It's strange that Wellness Wednesday happened to fall on it, when I haven't been doing this for very long. Five years ago today my Grandma on my mom's side passed away while I was holding her hand. I was watching her breath fog up her oxygen [...]

Logan Paul’s Aokigahara Forest Youtube Video

I'll be the first to say that I think it's wonderful that people can supplement their income by doing something they love on YouTube, or even make a career out of making videos. Good for them. But more recently I have become increasingly aware of the gimmicky, click-baity, do-anything-for-views people... and it has been concerning. [...]

When Ghosts Speak: Understanding the World of Earthbound Spirits – Mary Ann Winkowski

4/5 Stars I have to admit that I was skeptical before reading this book, as I always am with such works, even given my own experiences, connections, and abilities with the spirit world. However, overall, I was pleasantly surprised and did find a lot of useful information here. Mostly, I had it reinforced that my [...]

Nine Lives – Frank Say

4/5 Stars This book takes you on a journey through the unknown. As the main character Sam attempts to put his life back together after it has fallen apart, he realizes he may be on an even darker path than he realized. He searches for answers to the unexplainable events he has been experiencing, desperate to [...]