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In a hard season, just out of a painful relationship and buried under my own inner critic, I came across a saying about a hunter who saves the sparrow sheltering at his chest. It stopped me. This essay is about what it taught me: that the way through a harsh inner voice can be toward it, not away; how to question it without agreeing; and how a hunter can become a collaborator.

The gods condemned Sisyphus to roll a boulder up a mountain forever, and Camus told us to imagine him happy. This essay takes that strange instruction seriously: why we treat suffering as a detour from the real life, what Viktor Frankl actually said about finding meaning in it, and how hardship, met with open eyes, can build resilience without being glorified.

Loneliness is disconnection. Aloneness is something else entirely. On Trungpa, Bodhidharma in the snow, and why the spiritual path demands everything you have.

I took a Bodhisattva vow as a young man. Years later, burnout taught me what Chögyam Trungpa meant by "idiot compassion" — and that saying no can be the more compassionate act.

Sophie Rottenberg, 29, died by suicide in February 2025 after confiding her suicidal thoughts to ChatGPT — not to her real therapist, her best friend, or her parents. She is not alone: 3 in 10 adults now use AI for mental health support, and OpenAI's own data show over 1.35 million weekly ChatGPT users express suicidal intent. Andrew H. Housley, board-certified Health and Wellness Coach, on 5 real dangers of AI as sole mental health support — and 5 alternatives that actually

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.