Untangling Self

A tender sit with Vince Fakhoury Horn on Palestine, identity, and dharma. He speaks about his family’s Palestinian history and what it’s like to live with the unrelenting waves of grief, fear, and anger that never end. And how that reckoning has matured his spiritual practice into waking down, rooted in the body and the world. We move through themes of overwhelm and the pull to look away, adult de...

"My current best pitch for parent relationship work is: come for the suck reduction, stay for the most powerful spiritual practice and contact with the divinity I've come across thus far. My work with my mom has simply been by far the clearest and most powerful path to connecting with sacredness, divinity, and grace. It's filled a hole in my heart. Easiest thing to point at is a 95% r...

May all beings be immersed in boundless love. The Love Library — https://service-guild.notion.site/Love-Library-92fc1e8212fc4ac397aa03a1415b2553 Tasshin's book about Metta, The Path of Love — https://tasshin.com/metta-book https://tasshin.com/love/

In our personal journeys, we have experienced some beautiful synergies between meditation and parts-work. And the goal of this conversation was to explore these synergies. We started with discussing the limitations and potential pitfalls of parts work. We then delved deeper into the relationship between parts work and meditation, exploring how the wisdom of traditional mediation teachings can help...

We (Theo and Pranab) recorded a conversation talking about our "parts work" journeys — how we see parts work, what makes it transformative, how we got started, what helped us, some insights, practical tips, and more. If you've been curious about the idea of IFS or other parts-based self-exploration frameworks, this conversation might serve as a useful primer to help you dive deeper....

Mykola Bilokonsky runs the Public Neurodiversity Support Center , with an aim to develop it as the single best resource on the internet by and for neurodivergent people. Here, Myk beautifully and intensely talks about his life story as an autistic individual and then outlines his theory of Autistic Identity Trauma using The Matrix film series as a map. This was less of a conversation and more of a...

"Core Transformation is about altering a deceptively simple pattern with large ramifications.  The pattern is that when you desire something, you make a contract with yourself to suffer until you get the thing."  — from Romeo's blog post on Core Transformation (http://neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com/2019/07/core-transformation.html)  If you're curious about Core Transformation...