VITAL GROUND
A publication on trying to feel alive, whole, and vibrant, in a culture optimized for everything but that.
I'm a therapist and a writer building a publication for myself along with the people I keep meeting…
in my practice, in my own life, in essentially every adult conversation that lasts longer than fifteen minutes -
who have done the obvious things, achieved most of what they were supposed to, and are wondering why they don’t feel a little less like they’re looking at their lives from outside a snow globe.
Vital Ground is where I write about that question without the constraints of the therapy room.
Cultural essays.
Psychological arguments
Anthropology, history, and a clinician's POV.
What’s comingSUBSCRIBE Before Launch
SUBSCRIBE Before Launch
Vital Ground launches this summer.
Subscribe now and I'll send you the first piece on the day it goes live, plus a short series of pre-launch essays that won't appear anywhere else.
It is reflective, cultural, and creative writing intended for anyone and everyone.
A fewof the questions I'm working through
Why optimization keeps producing the opposite of aliveness, and what aliveness actually asks of us instead
Why so many capable, accomplished people who pursued all the right things feel numb
How we came to confuse martyrdom with love
What it actually takes to want something, and what it takes to be someone who's allowed to want it.
Whether people in materially harder lives were more vital than we are - and what we're supposed to do with the answer.