Journey to Year 33
This is a tender, unflinching account of the years that shaped me—an honest arc from survival through brokenness to the fragile work of repair. It holds difficult truths about emotional and physical abuse and touches on suicidal ideation; reader discretion is advised. If you want a candid witness to resilience and the slow alchemy of healing, this story meets you there.
Video: Mind-Body Syndrome and healing chronic pain
After over six years of relentless pain following a back injury, I learned something profound: pain isn’t just an alarm system—it’s a narrative. This story traces how structural injury, emotional turmoil, and unhealed stories collide in the brain, and how nature’s logic and mind-body awareness helped me reclaim rhythm, integrity, and possibility.
For anyone who’s been told “it’s all in your head” while feeling every bit of it—this explores how to validate pain and transform it from inside out.
My Perceptual Reality: Learning to Befriend Pain
Flat on the forest floor, I discovered the mind’s power to shape reality. What began as a back injury spiraled into months of crawling, shrieking, and relearning how to walk—a journey through misdiagnosis, self-advocacy, and the choice to listen rather than numb.
This story unravels the slow, intentional work of moving at the body’s pace, embracing cannabis as an ally, and discovering that healing isn’t about returning to who I was, but about accepting change as the only constant.