Moving Toward A Soul-Aligned Life

An update on me & this newsletter.

When I started this newsletter, I knew that I didn’t really want to write about politics. But I was told by everyone who knows anything that in order to be successful I needed to stick to what I was known for.

Almost as soon as I launched, I knew I had made a mistake. I had allowed my conditioning to lead me down a path that was ego driven (“I must be ‘successful’”) but totally detached from my soul’s desires.

This has been the story of my life and so many people I know.

It may be your story too.

When I refer to ego, I don’t mean egotistical, though I certainly have been that at times. I mean the part of us that needs outside approval, “success” as it’s defined by culture, and so on. As Richard Rohr says, “The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.”

The ego is what can keep us stuck.

For the last few years, I have been doing a lot of work to heal and decondition from societal and parental expect…