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Universal Design for Personal Wellbeing
I have generally enjoyed Jessica McCabe’s work surrounding ADHD. She is an actor who became a self-advocate personality, writer, and de facto coach through her YouTube channel, “How to ADHD.” One aspect of the channel that always challenged me was how polished it was. How polished, scripted, and professional she was. It became clear to […]
On Becoming Emotionally Healed and Behaviorally Careless.
Part 1: The Background and My Trauma Four years ago, almost to the day, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, now and since 2016 a fully online media company called Trib Live, posted a story about me. The article: ‘Absolutely beautiful’: West Penn Hospital staff gave Harrison man 2nd goodbye with dying mother. Renatta Signorini, who wrote […]
Taking Refuge In the Seven Homecomings
Hi. Here we are. You and me. Right now. You know… writing is magic. Real, practical magic. I can communicate these thoughts to you, and you have received them asynchronously. Furthermore, the words have a real impact on your nervous system. I can influence you, and anyone, from afar and from the past. Anyone can. […]
A Brief Update on The Book!
Hello! An update on the book. As of now, the working title is, “On Becoming… An Exploration of Existence and Person-Centered Paradigm-Shifts in the Time of COVID.” I’ve self-published Chapters 1, 2, and 3. The fourth chapter of the book shifts to a longer view of the full framework I’ve been building and revising across […]
Chapter 3: Toward an Impact-Regarding Social-Emotional Pedagogy
I need to be straight with you, here. I’m not entirely sure where my head was while writing and revising this chapter, but the tone is ENTIRELY different than Chapter 1. Same person. Different voice. I’m assuming that I wanted to sound credible, or intelligent, and thus walked a road of pretention and verbosity. It’s […]
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) Primer and Resources
Recently, I deep-dived into Compassion Focused Therapy, a relatively novel approach to psychotherapy that has both supported my self-care journey as well as my work as a coach & communication clinician. For anyone who is interested in learning more about CFT, I’ve compiled the following. This document will be chunked into a glossary, a short […]
Welcome, 2025. (We shall see.)
I’m grateful to be here. Fifty years. I have friends who did not make it here. Their finish lines drawn sooner than mine. It’s 2025. The Me that I and We know (hi!) emerged from the Universe in 1974 and universe willing? There will be more solar returns and lunar baths. Today (written 1/1/25 and […]
Chapter 2: Glossary of Critical Terms for Section 1.
This glossary is presented out of alphabetical order and rather in a manner that additively illuminates the Impact Centered Interpersonal Influence Support Framework, Impact-Regarding Social-and-Emotional Pedagogy, as well as Impact-Disregarding Behavioral endeavors; all of which will be established and elaborated in the upcoming chapters of Section 1. >>>>>+<<<<< Social: Referring to the human drive to […]