Empowered Alone
This reflective essay explores how modern relationships often mirror transactions, with individuals trading beauty, power, or validation instead of building authentic connection. The author challenges this dynamic by embracing solitude, self-discipline, and intentionality. Through practices like abstaining from sex and PMO for 90 days, setting a three-month boundary before sexual intimacy, and shifting from active pursuit to passive receptivity, the author reclaims personal power and redefines intimacy. The central message is that true connection arises not from need or negotiation, but from self-awareness, patience, and contentment with being alone. In rejecting transactional patterns, we open ourselves to relationships rooted in respect, shared values, and mutual authenticity.
More Letters to Myself
The following is a collection of quotes created based on journal entries. In these entries, Michael wrote to himself to heal psychological wounds.
Breathing and Contemplation Exercise
While designed with a specific individual in mind, this exercise can be used to observe, unwind, and quiet your mind.
Conversation with Amber Kelly
A conversation with Amber Kelly about body wisdom, relationships, and vulnerability.
Letters to Myself
These quotes are from letters I’ve written to myself along my journey toward transcending the psychological self.
1,015 Post-Graduate Level Words
If it is your wish, this list of vocabulary words will enhance your capacity to receive and give these gifts of understanding that will bring a better future into focus.
Trekonomics: High-Tech Sustainability Model
An article that connects COVID-19 with our economic systems and proposes alternatives that align with the natural world and the outcomes we’d like to create.
Spiritual Skeptic: Soul Discovery Despite Doubts
A description of how I discovered a sense that I am more than my body and mind.
Between Belief and Disbelief
I received my first letter since proposing a podcast. Here’s my reply to some questions and musings.