The Filament Blog

The breakdown precedes the breakthrough.

I have repeated this to myself a lot this week, and that’s because this week I raised the bar on my performance* (See paragraph below). For...

I woke up feeling sluggish. Not only that, I’d had some upsetting dreams the night before. I couldn’t remember the details, but I knew I was waking up out of some stressful scenario...

I sat across from a new client recently and asked, “What lights you up?”

They paused and shifted, looking away from the camera. “That’s the thing. I don’t let...

I lift my body out of my wheelchair and plop into the cushioned seat of my standing frame. I slowly crank up the frame and bring myself into a more upright standing position. The effects begin...

If you had gone to high school with me (and some of you reading this did - Go Knights!) you would have known a rather femme, highly social, flute playing, swimming, seminary-enthusiastic young man....

I was sitting at the gym the other day when I looked over and saw someone using the dumbbells directly in front of the rack, blocking everyone else from using them. Annoyed, I thought, “Oh, I...

I really don’t think we can have the lives we want without developing a working relationship with fear.

I hate that this is true, actually, because fear is uncomfortable. I want to...

I sat in my wheelchair, one leg crossed over the other, as I waited for my spinal cord doctor to enter the sunlit room. I hadn’t seen him in over a year and was eager to ask the questions...

If you have ever flown on an airplane, you know that there is a safety presentation before each takeoff. Flight attendants make their way to the aisles to gesture along to the voiceover...

Sometimes I spend an entire week thinking about what I would like to write about in this blog. Other times, something is so obvious and in my face that I have to drop everything and just write.

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I stared at the crisscrossing colored lines of the NYC subway system on my phone screen. It never ceases to intimidate me - not just because the system itself is complicated, but because I have to...

I started swimming my sophomore year of high school. In just a few days of being immersed in chlorinated water for several hours a day, I noticed that my skin felt tight and itchy (living in the...