A Nature-Inspired Approach to Healing Using Biomimicry
Explore biomimicry and its opportunity to influence healing. Biomimicry is a design framework that studies how biological organisms, processes, and systems functioning on Earth today have adapted strategies to solve problems related to those we experience in our human designs. It’s a methodological and philosophical approach, a way of perceiving the world around us and our collective interconnectedness.
Surviving a Traumatic Brain Injury: My Recovery Story
The brain is the storyteller of self—it sculpts personality, filters experience, and governs feeling. When its capacity to process is shaken, we lose more than function: we lose a portal to presence, and we crave compassionate care. In this personal telling, I trace my own passage through traumatic brain injury—a rupture that forced me back to first principles: nature, relationship, and slow repair. This is a healing story that continues, rooted in the wild wisdom of life itself.
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.