ART IS SURRENDER

For most of my life I was looking for ways to relieve the pressure inside me. Vulnerability was terrifying. I was constantly questioning myself, always wondering what other people thought about me. A deep wound of feeling unworthy.

So I went on a journey which took me out of my conditioned existence and placed me on a collision course of engaging with the world. It has been a wild adventure, to be sure.

I found out the pressure was there because I'd been performing for others. Being who everyone needed me to be. Never expressing what was actually true.

Art opened me up and writing served as one outlet to release the pressure. I then encountered what was within in the stillness of a meditation retreat.

That's what this space is.

I'm not a professional artist or a therapist. I'm someone who spent a whole life wearing my masks and holding in the pressures of a life not lived authentically.

I eventually found the practices that worked for me, and built them into something that can be a guide to help give back to the world while also understanding that we each walk our own path.

Three ways to practice surrender with me:

1. Art is Surrender - As a brand

Art as Medicine for Integration

Surrender, in and of itself, is letting go. Letting go of our conditioning, our limiting beliefs, the image we present to the world — all the ways we make ourselves smaller than we really are.

There are many ways to help us relieve the tension and the pressure we live with and put on ourselves.

Art is one way. For me, writing was something that came through when I began to quiet the noise. When I stopped intellectualizing everything. When my awareness stopped being pulled in every direction by all the distractions of this modern world.

Really it is about choosing what to do with our awareness. Allowing this energy to move through us. Allowing it to express itself in whichever way it chooses. All we must do is get out of the way and have the courage to express what comes through.

I share my art on Instagram and Substack.
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2. A Shrewd Unraveling of Eternity - Fiction

What if the only way to remember what you are is to completely forget?

This is a work of fiction set in a parallel universe — one that feels uncomfortably close to our own.

A healer climbs a forbidden mountain carrying more love than he knows what to do with. A woman in Oakland sits in a therapist's chair she's avoided her entire life. A being beyond the stars drinks a darkness so foul it erases everything he was.

We live in an age of endless revelation. Hidden agendas, forbidden knowledge, rabbit holes going deeper than any mind can follow. For many searching, the search itself becomes the trap. The darkness whispers: I matter more because I know something you don't.

This is a story about that seeker. About the costs of descent. About a universe that set the whole unraveling in motion because there was no other path to the only truth that has ever mattered:

That the love being sought was always the love within.

What am I, beneath the masks I was programmed to wear?

Released chapter by chapter on Substack as they arrive.

3. Get Me To Vipassana

Strengthening our nervous system. Integrating our shadows.

GMTV exists for one reason: to remember how it feels to be in our bodies.

Twenty-six weeks of daily practice. Weekly sessions together. Building the capacity your nervous system needs before ten days of vipassana dissolution.

When we stop collapsing under pressure, when we integrate our shadows instead of projecting them, everyone around us feels that.

The collective shifts through nervous systems learning they're safe to feel what's here, right now.

That’s what this is about. Not to tell you that you need to be fixed or that you need to live without fear. But to discover if love finds you when the masks fall away.

Because it will. Not the love you've been seeking from outside to prove you're worthy. The love that's already here, always has been, and it’s discovered when we stop running away from ourselves. 

Twenty-six weeks. Ten days in silence. Then the rest of your life.

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