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A six-shot revolver has six chambers. The album this song opens is called Dopamine Chamber. A spiritual reading of Fontaines D.C.’s “Six Shot Morning”: can you call the world beautiful when you can’t feel it, what happens when sadness becomes content for the screen, and why “always” sounds less like a promise than a sentence. Plus the Buddhist idea that clinging to permanence is where suffering starts, and what sitting offers in place of an audience.

Most days don’t announce themselves. A song that insists each one is “just another day on earth” ought to feel like a dismissal. To me it feels closer to a blessing. A spiritual reading of Brian Eno’s “Just Another Day,” newly back in print: is the word “just” resignation or release, why repetition works like a mantra, what it means to imagine putting it all behind us, and how impermanence cuts both ways, taking the hard days and the good ones.

When U2 released "The Greatest Show on Earth," one word stopped me: once. This is a spiritual reading of the song's questions about love, faith, and impermanence. Falling in love is the easy part. Staying is the practice. What does it mean to keep faith in someone you can never fully know, to ask whether a vow is a church of love or fear, and to love without clutching something that was always going to change? Along the way: Zen, hurt, and what's left when the lights go out.

What is the Zen view of time? Most of us picture it as a line: the past behind us, the future ahead, and us walking the road between. Zen master Taisen Deshimaru taught that time is not a line but a series of now points. This post explores what that means, why the line picture feeds regret and anxiety, and three simple ways to practice living one point at a time, starting with a single breath.

Michelangelo believed a figure already exists inside the marble, waiting to be revealed. Psychologists call the relationship version of this the Michelangelo phenomenon: partners who see each other's best, truest selves help each other actually grow into them. This piece walks through what the research says, four practical ways to apply it, and why a partner's steady belief can matter more than any advice.

Productivity gets sold as the measure of a good life, but there's a point where the drive to achieve stops helping and starts draining you. Drawing on real coaching work, this piece walks through eight signs of toxic productivity, plus one reflection question for each, so you can catch the pattern before it turns into burnout.

Interpol’s new title track asks what we do with a mirror that weighs a ton. This essay reads it as a spiritual question: is silence the end of feeling or the far side of it? Drawing on my own experience of sitting with a loss I could not go around, and on what I tell my students about shortcuts, it makes the case that the silence you buy and the silence you go through are not the same.

The Atlantic's viral feature on meditation's "dark side" documents real harm — psychosis, dissociation, careers derailed by intensive practice. The reporting deserves to be taken seriously, but its framing doesn't. Drawing on the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures, the Yoga Sutras, and the Eightfold Path, this response argues meditation was never sold as relaxation, was never meant for solo practice without a qualified guide, and was never meant to be separated from the ethical traditio

I said good morning to a man on Solano and watched him decide what it meant. It took a second and a half — threat assessment, a scan for what I might want, then a third calculation neither of us could name. He nodded at my sternum and kept walking. I live in New Orleans, where you greet everyone you pass, including the man asleep on your steps. Berkeley taught America that being wrong in public was acceptable. Sixty years on, nobody looks up.

Self-help tells you what to do. Novels change what you think you are. The wellness industry runs on information — articles, podcasts, apps, frameworks — but research keeps showing information is one of the least effective tools for changing behavior. Andrew H. Housley, novelist and board-certified Health and Wellness Coach, on why fiction may be the most overlooked behavior-change technology of our time, and why writing about your own experience is its quiet companion practic

The Buddha described four kinds of students as four kinds of horses — one moved by the shadow of the whip, the next by the touch of hair, the third by the flesh, and the last only by the whip to the bone. Andrew H. Housley on the parable's strange afterlife: Shunryu Suzuki's argument that the worst horse may be the best student, Peter Gabriel's 2023 song that finds a fifth horse hidden in the original four, and what each kind of horse asks of us. From the Patoda Sutta to i/o.

Every year on the longest day, Andrew H. Housley leads a class through 108 sun salutations — Surya Namaskar, in the Sanskrit. A polished black stone for every rep, a tide of energy nobody is generating on purpose, and the small self quieting somewhere around rep eighty. This year the summer solstice falls on June 21 — the same day as Father's Day and the International Day of Yoga, inside Men's Mental Health Month. A yoga teacher on 108, the pivot point of the year, and what t

Andrew H. Housley was brought to Atlanta at five — a city he didn't choose. At thirteen he walked down Bourbon Street with his father and felt a kind of recognition he couldn't yet name. An essay on the two Southern cities that shaped a writer's life: Atlanta as the underground forge where the creative was born, New Orleans as the mirror that recognized what had been made. On place, memory, and the artist who needs both the city that made him and the city that greeted him.

Six methods for getting unstuck when the page won't move — and one quiet truth: the block breaks not when you have a brilliant idea, but when you stop requiring one.

Menopause affects every woman, yet it remains underfunded and misunderstood—while billions pour into erectile dysfunction research. This guide helps men understand what menopause is, how dramatic drops in estrogen and progesterone impact women’s bodies and emotions, and why relationships feel the shift. Learn how to support your partner with empathy, knowledge, and presence while breaking the silence around women’s health.

Time is the most precious of all our commodities — and the only one you can't buy back.

Our culture hides the dying from the living and calls death a failure. Ram Dass called it the culminating adventure. On the spiritual work of making peace with what we can't control.

When a burned-out student-athlete told me she had to decide that day whether to keep playing, I didn't offer answers. I asked questions. This post walks through what actually helps when you're trying to start a hard conversation about mental health, drawn from real coaching work, with updated crisis resources for World Mental Health Day.

Understanding the Financial Struggles of Independent Artists and How You Can Help