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This meditation teaches a cycle of intention, attention, forgetting, remembering, and returning, to cultivate inner wholeness.

A talk and meditation on releasing shame as a survival response and gently remembering inherent worthiness, compassion, and dignity already present.

A gentle meditation inviting the body to speak what the heart could not, honoring numbness as protection and safe listening as the beginning of thaw.

A talk and meditation reframing anger as safe, sacred life force, inviting gentle awareness of its sensations so frozen energy can move and thaw.

A talk and meditation reframing fears of a diminishing self as natural change, revealing awareness and compassion beneath shifting identity.

This talk and meditation guides the listener from resistance into soft acceptance, inviting a gentle inner yes to what is already here.

A Talk and meditation on training the mind to become its own best friend, learning to love what is hard to love.

A talk and guided loving-kindness (Metta) meditation that gently helps reveal the heart’s innate warmth and peace.

Rest in awareness beyond liking and disliking—where peace is found not in control, but in allowing life as it is.

Awaken to the chain of cause and effect—seeing how awareness interrupts reactivity and reveals true freedom in each moment.

A meditation on release—transforming grievance into grace by meeting pain with understanding, gratitude, and love.

Discover the stillness beneath movement—the unmoving awareness that holds all things in motion, revealing peace already within.

Learn to stop arguing with life and rest in what is—discovering freedom and kindness in loving reality as your teacher.

This talk and meditation invite us to awaken through the living body—not by transcending it, but by entering it fully.

A talk and meditation exploring the practice of trusting and allowing—meeting life with awareness, love, and deep peace.

A gentle 10-minute talk to help you ground, return to your body, and carry forward insights from expanded states into everyday awareness.

A guided meditation on resting in awareness—already whole, complete, and true in this cosmic moment.

This talk and guided meditation explores presence through shifting from chasing outer success to honoring inner purpose.

Noticing grasping and resisting, we find freedom by meeting each moment with openness.

Exploring self as process—clinging strengthens it, letting go softens it, opening to freedom.

A practice of stillness: resting in awareness to rediscover calm, love, and natural wholeness.

A talk and meditation on equanimity—finding steady ground in life’s storms, like the sky itself.

A story and practice on equanimity—meeting life’s flood without clinging or pushing away.

A raw, searing memoir of war, torture, and the lasting wounds of conscience and betrayal.

As a contributor to this anthology, I explore the profound psychological and spiritual impact of moral injury.

This first-hand account from my year embedded with Iraqi soldiers explores daily realities, moral tensions, and cultural collisions of the U.S. military presence in Iraq.

This meditation teaches awareness and non-reaction to unwanted experiences, emphasizing that suffering comes from our reaction, not the event.

This meditation guides you to become the observer of your thoughts, detaching from the "voice in your head" to cultivate equanimity and inner peace.

This meditation cultivates unconditional welcoming of all experiences by embracing sensations, sounds, and thoughts without judgment or desire to change them.

This meditation cultivates gratitude for all we receive and compassion for all beings, including ourselves and difficult people.

This meditation addresses the "inner critic," and through gentle awareness, reframing self-judgmental questions, and and offering compassionate phrases dissolve the critic's power.

This meditation guides a practice of unconditional, boundless loving-kindness (metta). It encourages wishing well to oneself and then to an "easy" person/being, using phrases, visualization, or …

Inspired by Zen wisdom, this meditation invites profound acceptance of every moment exactly as it is, declaring it "perfect."

This meditation highlights the "life beneath your life situation", revealing that true freedom exists in the present moment.

This meditation explores Anicca (impermanence), Dukkha (unsatisfactoriness/stress from resistance), and Anatta (not-self) to alleviate suffering.

Listen to my story: As a former Special Forces Colonel, I witnessed deep suffering. After surviving a plane crash, I found liberation by embracing the Buddha's …

An inquiry into moral injury—and how Buddhist psychology offers a path of healing and hope.

A soldier’s journey through moral injury, shame, and the long path toward healing and wholeness.

A raw look at war crimes, loyalty, and conscience—with my story in Episode 4.

This iRest meditation guides you to arrive as you are, finding an "inner resource"—a personal safe haven. It gently explores body sensations, breath, emotions, and thoughts, …

This iRest meditation guides you to a peaceful "inner resource" by gently observing sensations, breath, emotions, and thoughts. It fosters spacious awareness by exploring opposites and …

This meditation focuses on breath and body sensing to skillfully navigate life and cultivate well-being. It guides you to welcome all sensations, emotions, and thoughts as …

This meditation explores feelings and emotions as powerful messengers, guiding you to acknowledge and welcome them rather than indulging or repressing. It emphasizes that emotions are …

This meditation on beliefs teaches us to welcome thoughts as messengers, not to react to them. By pairing beliefs with their opposites, it fosters psychological integration …

This meditation unlocks an inner sense of joy and well-being, independent of external circumstances. By cultivating an "inner smile" and embracing sensations, emotions, and thoughts as …

This guided meditation encourages deep relaxation by focusing on bodily sensations, emotions, and thoughts. It helps you dissolve into pure awareness, welcoming every experience just as …

This iRest meditation focuses on integration, learning to welcome all experiences—sensations, emotions, thoughts, joy—with a "yes." It cultivates an unchanging awareness that exists between sleep and …

This conversation explores how psychedelics, meditation, and modern neuroscience converge to help the nervous system remember safety, the heart rediscover meaning, and the self dissolve into …