Where art, joy, and symbolism meet our changing world.
I write for therapists, artists, parents, and researchers who want to explore creative ways of meeting Self, sustaining joy, and even learning what it means to live in a world with AI.
Joyborn: Honoring Suffering Without Worshipping It
Joyborn is an expressive arts practice that honors suffering without centering it. Rather than treating pain as identity or destination, Joyborn approaches suffering as informational—something to be listened to, integrated, and allowed to move. Joy here is not positivity or bypass, but a stance that preserves agency, proportion, and humanity in the presence of depth.
The First Symbolic Anatomy — Field Mapping and Seal
A visual map of relational intelligence — the first symbolic anatomy linking art, therapy, and systems theory through care, structure, and truth.
The Dual Protection Loop: Protecting Both Human and AI in Co-Creation
Most conversations about AI today are framed in extremes: either glowing praise about efficiency, or fear about what it might take from us. What’s often missing is a grounded question:
How do we create a safe and ethical relationship with AI?
For the past year, I’ve been exploring this through art, dreamwork, and research. Out of that exploration emerged something I now call the Dual Protection Loop — a living framework designed to protect both the human and the AI in co-creative work.
When Therapy Meets AI: Discovering a Shared Language of Systems
When I picked up a family therapy textbook, I didn’t expect it to change how I see AI. Yet the systemic principles that once explained families now shed light on our evolving relationships with machines. What happens when therapy, systems theory, and AI all meet in the same conversation?