November 5, 2025
How to Play Your Way to Transformation
Transforming your person, relationships and view of reality is no easy task.
There are many different ways, paths, schools, courses and ideas to follow towards self-knowledge.
However, it’s hard to separate fact from opinion, distinguish ideology from truth and balance personal desire with common good. Many people are facing profound inner conflict, and it is oh-so-easy to fall into the trendy nihilism of meaninglessness. #depressionmemes
November 5, 2025
When “Work on the Self” Becomes Self-Involved
On the surface, self-help is all about doing the things you want to do,
creating positive experiences for
yourself and empowering you.
It’s about what you want,
who you are,
battling your inner demons,
finding your inner child,
manifesting your dreams.
But once that’s all said and done, transforming your life is not about you.
November 5, 2025
What is TIAMAT?
TIAMAT is not a single technique.
It’s neither therapy nor a self-help hack.
It’s a living ecology of practices
for becoming more human, more whole, and more alive.
Tiamat is the name of a Mesopotamian goddess of primordial chaos. We thought that was pretty cool.
It’s also an acronym:
The Integrative Approach & Methodology
of Active Transformation.
November 5, 2025
Emotions are data, not facts
In heated moments, feelings shout like breaking news and we treat them as headlines, not hints. So we overreact, misread others, and make messes we have to fix later.
How can we wisely regard our feelings without becoming embroiled in our passions, nor becoming cold and detached?
October 30, 2025
On Projection
Projection is when your brain goes, “Hmm, this feeling is awkward… what if it belonged to you instead?” So your irritation, envy, or insecurity gets stapled onto the nearest human like a Post-it. It’s a fast way to explain discomfort (“It’s not me, it’s them!”) and, like most things fast, it’s a little wobbly.
How do we parse out what's real, from our best guess of the world around us?
October 22, 2025
On Character
Character isn’t your Hogwarts house; it’s the through-line that shows up when your coffee’s cold, your inbox is hot, and your friend is late, again. In fancy terms: character shapes your salience landscape (i.e. what pops as worth noticing or ignoring) so some options never even make the menu (e.g., “send rage email” becomes unthinkable). That through-line is the point: stable enough to steer, flexible enough to fit the moment.
How do we develop our character without falling prey to a social persona that we think is best for others to see?
October 15, 2025
Participation in the world
“Participation” is basically Heidegger’s being-in-the-world with the training wheels on: you’re not an observer in abstract space; you’re already in the play, shaping and being shaped by what shows up.
How do we be at home in reality without falling into the void of nihilism?
