Collected Writings

When Growth Is the Only Goal: The Quiet Risk of Numbing

A reflective essay exploring how substance use and numbing behaviors often emerge in systems that idolize constant growth. Blending systems thinking with soul care, this piece invites a deeper look at the structural roots of coping and the quiet courage of slowing down.

Stop Saying You’re Bad at Saying No

Scope creep isn’t a flaw in willpower. It reveals how devotion, service, and boundaries live in tension. A depth-psychology perspective inspired by Hillman and Moore.

The Mystic Scientist

A reflective essay on a passage from C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, exploring how Mark's misplaced mysticism in abstractions mirrors our own temptations today—in education, relationships, and even the digital age— and how presence continually breaks through.

Who Really Observes?

This essay explores how what we call the “hard sciences” rely most on mediated observation and hidden layers of trust, while the “soft sciences” and faith remain rooted in direct, disciplined noticing of life—flipping our cultural assumptions upside down.