The Velvety Steel Balls Radiance Project (or something like it)
The Erotic Four and the Alchemy of Healing: How My 1993 Study on Communication Apprehension Predicted a Revolution in Love
Creating a shift from surviving to thriving, marked as happy, joyous, and free. In 1993, I sat in a quiet room at Santa Clara University, staring at the results of my study on communication apprehension among adult children of alcoholics. The data was clear: people...
Starving the Disease: Valter Longo’s Research Into Fasting and Alzheimer’s
For decades, the dominant narrative around Alzheimer’s disease has been one of inevitability — a slow, relentless unraveling with no meaningful way to intervene. Pharmaceutical research has poured billions into amyloid-clearing drugs with discouraging results, and the...
Short Term Extended Fasting: The Difference Between Three-day and Five-day Fasts
Water-only fasting is one of the oldest practices in human history — undertaken across every major civilization for spiritual, medicinal, and ritual purposes long before science had any framework for understanding what it was doing to the body. Today, that framework...
Open Your Mind to Receive
What a magnificent web we weave when we practice to receive. I want to tell you about the moment I told a stranger to “Have a beautiful life.” That exchange was complete in a way that the original exchange had not quite been. The blessing offered and the blessing...
Moving Toward What Matters: Building an Extraordinary Life
The difference between an ordinary life and an extraordinary one is rarely talent. It is almost always courage. There is a moment that recurs throughout human life — not once, but repeatedly, across the decades of a lived existence — in which a person stands at a...
