Part 1 of 5 in the "Mental Health as a Wisdom Path" Series A client came to see me after more than a year of weekly talk therapy for his insomnia and anxiety. Both were severe enough that he'd been put on medication after medication, each with its own side effects. He still couldn't sleep. He still woke up with his chest tight and his mind racing. A few sessions and a couple months later, both the anxiety and the insomnia were resolved. Not managed. Not "better." Resolved from the root. What...

Part 2 of 5 in the "Mental Health as a Wisdom Path: What Modern Psychology Left Behind" Series If you read Part 1 , you might be sitting with some interesting realizations right now. You built maps as a child to survive. Those maps made perfect sense then. But they're still running your life now, and they don't match the territory anymore. You've probably been trying to change these patterns for years. Therapy. Self-help books. Coaching. App-based meditations. Youtube rabbit holes. Some of it...

Chögyam Trungpa's calligraphy "NO" - a teaching on the discipline of refusal that liberates rather than constricts. Created January 8, 1979, as a teaching tool for his students on distinguishing between clarity-rooted boundaries and ego-protective defense. On January 8, 1979, at the Kalapa Court in Boulder, Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa did something unexpected. He observed his students indulging in what had become comfortable, self-justifying narratives, and what he called...