When Safety Becomes a Cage
There comes a point when survival stops feeling like safety and starts feeling like confinement.The strategies that once protected us — staying alert, staying in control, staying invisible — begin to run on their own.We don’t choose them anymore. They choose us. That’s the essence of rigidity: life energy locked into old shapes.It’s the moment […]
Reflection as Practice: Turning Awareness into Medicine
Reflection begins the same way: you pause, you turn inward, you start to listen. It’s the same door we opened in trauma assessment, but it leads down a different path.But in Daoist practice, reflection isn’t a way to gather information—it’s a way to return to stillness. To reflect is to allow awareness to settle until […]