HeyJaredThe StoicMom Project
The StoicMom Project is a living archive of essays, conversations, and parent stories exploring how responsibility and inner authority shape relationship under pressure — an ongoing inquiry into growing bigger than the moments that undo us.
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Becoming Willing (opens the original)
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Last week I wrote about what we feed. About the fact that our attention is not neutral. That what we give our attention to grows—not only around us, but in us.At the end of that piece, I invited mothers who are curious about Tapestry to come meet me.Then something interesting happened.A woman who has been part of Tapestry for about a year and a half left a comment.“Stoic Mom asks me to do the hard things,” she wrote.She went on to name some of them: loving her daughter as she is. Accepting that
What You Feed Grows (opens the original)
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What you focus on expands.I’ve heard some version of this phrase for years, and I’ve probably dismissed it at times because it can sound a little too much like magical thinking. As if the universe is some giant vending machine and if I just imagine hard enough, I’ll get the life I ordered.That’s not what I mean.I don’t believe we control what happens to us by controlling our thoughts. I don’t believe that if I focus on health I’ll never get sick, or if I think loving thoughts about my relationsh
On Free Will (opens the original)
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How much of what I call a choice is actually the inevitable next move inside a story I don’t yet know I’m telling?Funny how once I let myself off the hook for a weekly philosophical piece—here I am for a second week in a row! Freedom and agency are almost always on my mind, especially in my work on The StoicMom Project. So, on free will…I’m not particularly interested in solving the centuries-old debate about determinism, or deciding once and for all whether we have free will.I’m interested in s
On Faith (opens the original)
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Dream Jesus (opens the original)
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