scott 🌞

breaking old patterns means stepping into tension, rather than trying to avoid it

the huge downside of developing your intuition is that you start to uncover all that you desire why's this bad? well, if you're totally disconnected from yourself, you can build a "good enough" life i.e. a job that bores you but that you're decent at, success on paper, peaceful…

a lot of modern therapy-speak is just moving words around > “that’s not self-protection, that’s actually avoidant attachment” > “that’s not irrational, it’s actually healthy boundaries” we’re just choosing different words to describe the same pattern and while this can be…

you don’t design a fulfilling life, you design a fulfilling moment, and then another, and then another

why I focus on somatic work with my clients: when I was younger I thought insight was the key to change. like, if I understand what the problem is + where it comes from + what to do about it, it should get better, right? … right?! well, it didn’t really work like that for me.…

"don't worry, everything will be okay" if this is how you're meeting your fear & doubt, you creating a fragile sense of safety will everything be okay? maybe, maybe not. you can't know for certain and your subconscious knows that. it knows that better than you do. it knows…

uncovering any significant truth about yourself is a form of death… it signifies the end of your old ways of thinking, of being so it makes sense that certain aspects of our psyche would resist truth-seeking clinging to the old you for dear life

we often think of desires as binary: you either fulfill a desire or you don't if it's a bad desire, the "good" outcome is to not fulfill it, and vice versa but this framing ignores the fact that our desires respond to expression & recognition saying "I want this" changes the…

the ideal version of you is not the version that is perfectly in control of yourself

you can do "inner work" at any moment all you have to ask is, "am i fighting myself, or am i building trust with myself?"

you don't need to "make" anything happen, you just need to cultivate the conditions for what you want to grow

two essential parts of the creative process: a) making what you like b) liking what you make plenty of potential obstacles to each, but these are essential steps to the ultimate goal... making work that resonates with both you & your audience