HeyJaredJourney to Self-Awareness
I write about things I wish I had known when I started on the path to self-awareness.
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The Ultimate Tesseract (opens the original)
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The darkest trick of any shadow is to convince us that we are entirely alone.In our modern world, the “darkness” rarely announces itself with a dramatic flourish. Instead, it operates quietly, showing up as isolation, division, and the numbing rhythm of a hyper-connected yet deeply lonely existence. We see it in the way communities fracture, the way polarization hardens our hearts, and the way we instinctively build walls when we are hurting. When we are trapped in these dark places, we become l
Turn the Current All the Way Up (opens the original)
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When we begin the work of self-acceptance, we ignite our own internal circuit. When we extend that compassion to those around us, we build quantum bridges across the chasms of human isolation. But the true majesty of love as an energy force is revealed only when we zoom all the way out—past our immediate relationships, past our small circles, and into the grand, invisible mechanics of the universe itself.It is here that we discover a breathtaking truth: we are not isolated islands trying to surv
The Spiritual Illusion of Being "Fixed" (opens the original)
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We live in a culture obsessed with fixing. From self-help shelves to curated social media feeds, we are bombarded with the underlying message that we are fundamentally broken projects in need of constant renovation. We tell ourselves that once we finally conquer our anxiety, heal our deepest grief, or iron out our stubborn flaws, then we will be ready to step into our power. Then we will be worthy of love, and capable of giving it. Then we will be worthy of being a beacon for others.I fell into
Series Introduction: The Frequency of Light (opens the original)
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I first encountered Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time when I was in my early teens, and I fell completely in love with it when I read it. Back then, it felt like an incredible adventure across space and time. But returning to it now, I realize it was planting the seeds for a much deeper understanding of the world. It uses the grand scale of science fiction to ground a truth that we often forget: love isn’t just a soft, passive sentiment we write into greeting cards. It is the most volatile,
The Symphony of the Mundane (The Soul Trilogy: Part 3) (opens the original)
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We have reached the last post of our three-week journey through Pixar’s Soul, and to me, it feels like we’ve crossed an emotional landscape together. In Part 1, we talked about the illusion of the “Dream Job”—how I spent two years treating my life like a temporary waiting room after closing my business in 2023. In Part 2, we looked at how easily our passions can mutate into anxiety, turning us into “lost souls” wandering a desert of our own expectations because we haven’t given ourselves the spa
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