Narrative Responsibility

Should Versus Is

Conundrum: how do you solve a problem, when that problem is defined as outside the bounds of the possible and is therefore innately unsolvable? Do you need to venture beyond the boundaries of Euclidean space-time? Or just re-think your assumptions about the (im)possible?

Attachment Style As RPG Class

Now that we've learned the framework of Attachment Styles, let's apply it! RPG character class usually correlates to what we think of culturally as "personality traits" - are you funny, charming, shy, etc.? - and attachment styles actually have quite a big influence on the traits we express with others. Where do you get to boost your scores? ...and what do you have to lose to compensate?

Resource Review: Learning Love by Thais Gibson

A resource review/recommendation for the new book LEARNING LOVE by Thais Gibson with Sjorland Gibson. Includes a quick and dirty overview of attachment theory and a bit about my relationship (heh) with that framework. 

Daily Goodness Practice

Hot take: a "gratitude practice" is less about feeling gratitude, specifically, and more about finding the good in your life to counteract negativity bias. A quick overview of why and how to count your blessings in a way that will actually change how you feel about your life!

Resolutions Are Gifts to Yourself

Traditional New Year's resolutions set us up for failure, because they focus on using ego to control emotions. Align your resolutions to your underlying emotional needs, and you have endless fuel to stick to them because they will feel like gifts to yourself! 

Curating Traditions

Holiday traditions often feel less like joys and more like obligations if we haven't taken the time to curate them against our personal values and needs. What can we do differently, and why might we want to?

RPG Character Change Plan

In the RPG of life we don't get to just kill off a character and build a new one once we understand the game...we have to build a change from where we are. How can we plan that out for maximum effectiveness?

Why Change Is Hard

Change is one of those "simple but not easy" processes. Take a look at the underlying reasons it can be so hard with psychological math. Spoiler: effort, time, and degree all play a part in how to formulate an effective change!

Consciousness As Non-Euclidean Spacetime

Our consciousness experiences time as one endless now...but not all nows are created equal! Explore some of the ways and whys we can get out of sync with time as kept by the clock.

Time Travel for Healing

Going back to the past to change the present is just science fiction...OR IS IT? Continue exploring the human relationship with time via healing practices that parallel time travel.