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The Journal.

Quiet, considered writing on movement, recovery, the nervous system and the unhurried life.

  • Meditation: Impossible, Then Addictive, Then a Superpower

    Meditation: Impossible, Then Addictive, Then a Superpower

    Meditation goes through three stages. At the start, it feels impossible. You sit down, close your eyes, and your brain immediately produces a shopping list, an argument you lost in 2011, and a burning need to check your phone. Then, one day, you arrive at your first genuine moment of silence — and you’re hooked.…

  • THE SANCTUARY SPACE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING.

    THE SANCTUARY SPACE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING.

    I want to tell you something honest about my mind. For most of my life it did not feel like my friend. It was busy in the way that exhausts — not the productive busy of someone working towards something, but the relentless, circular busy of a mind that could never settle. Filled with not-good-enoughs…

  • The Disease of Disconnection

    The Disease of Disconnection

    We are, on the surface of it, more connected than any generation in human history. We have devices that put every human being on earth within reach. We have platforms that let us broadcast our lives, our opinions, even our lunch. We have the sum total of human knowledge available in our pockets, at any…