From the Couragepath
Reflections on the deeper story: the neuroscience of healing, the contemplative life, and the couragepath journey of integration.
The Threshold Never Crossed: Understanding the Uninitiated One Wound
The Uninitiated One archetype is the capacity for transformation, rites of passage, and the courage to cross the threshold into a new season of life. When this archetype is wounded, we remain perpetually on the edge of becoming — capable, intelligent, and deeply stuck.
Read more →The Tamed Wild: Understanding the Wild One Wound
The Wild One archetype is the capacity for aliveness, instinct, and untamed vitality. When this archetype is wounded, the wildness does not disappear. It goes underground. And a life without wildness is a life that has lost its pulse.
Read more →The Weight of Everyone Else's World: Understanding the Nurturer Wound
The Nurturer archetype is the capacity for compassion, attunement, and genuine care. When this archetype is wounded, care becomes compulsion. And a person who cannot stop giving is not generous. They are afraid.
Read more →When the Knowing Goes Dark: Understanding the Sage Wound
The Sage archetype is the capacity for discernment, wisdom, and the integration of experience into meaning. When this archetype is wounded, we do not simply lose confidence in our thinking. We lose trust in our own inner knowing.
Read more →The Wound That Closed the Heart: Understanding the Lover Archetype
The Lover archetype is the capacity for connection, beauty, and embodied presence. When this archetype is wounded, the heart does not simply break. It closes. Understanding this wound is the beginning of the path back to aliveness.
Read more →The Sword That Turned Inward: Understanding the Warrior Wound
High achievers are often exhausted not by weakness but by the relentless demands of their own strength. The Warrior wound, whether over-activated or suppressed, is one of the most common and least recognized injuries in the lives of those who have built everything by fighting for it.
Read more →The Wound Beneath the Crown: How the Sovereign Injury Drives the Success Trap
The restlessness that high achievers carry is not a character flaw. It is the Sovereign wound: the wound to the capacity for self-blessing that drives the success trap from beneath. Understanding it is the first step toward the deeper story.
Read more →When the Map No Longer Fits the Territory: A Contemplative Guide to Faith Deconstruction
There is a particular kind of disorientation that comes not from losing your way, but from discovering that the map you have been following no longer corresponds to the territory you are actually walking through. A guide to what deconstruction actually is, and what lies on the other side.
Read more →The Mosaic I Had to Build First: The Origin Story of Life Telling Processing
Life Telling Processing did not emerge from academic theorizing. It emerged from a season of profound personal fragmentation following a rotational brain injury in 2013. This is the origin story of the modality, told from the inside.
Read more →When the Story Shatters: What Trauma Actually Does to the Narrative
Trauma does not just wound the body or the emotions. It shatters the narrative. Understanding what trauma actually does to the story, and how the fragments can be gathered into something whole, is the beginning of the path toward integration.
Read more →The Neuroscience of the Success Trap: Why High Achievers Feel Empty
You have built the career, the reputation, and the life that everyone around you admires. So why does it feel so hollow? The answer lies not in your character, but in your neurology.
Read more →Spiritual Shadowlands: Navigating Faith Deconstruction Without Losing Your Soul
There is a season in the spiritual life that no one prepares you for: the season when the faith that once held you begins to feel too small for the life you are actually living.
Read more →The Mosaic Metaphor: Why We Don't Throw Away the Broken Pieces
Walk into any ancient basilica and you will find them: mosaics that have survived fifteen centuries of war and neglect. They are not smooth. They are not seamless. And yet, from a distance, they are breathtaking. The mosaic is the central metaphor of Life Telling Processing.
Read more →The Five Phases of Life Telling Processing: What the Journey Actually Looks Like
One of the most common questions I hear from people considering therapy is a simple one: what will we actually do? Here is a plain-language guide to the arc of the work, from building safety to carrying the story forward.
Read more →From Survivor to Thriver: The Arc of Narrative Integration
Survival programs kept you alive. But they were never meant to be permanent. Life Telling Processing describes the arc from surviving to thriving, from fragmented story to integrated life.
Read more →The Ground Beneath the Work: Place, Contemplation, and the Rhythm of Life Telling Processing
There is a particular quality of light in Fair Oaks in the early morning, the way it filters through the valley oaks before the heat of the day arrives, diffuse and unhurried, touching everything without insisting on anything. The land has become a teacher.
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