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Start Here: Return to the Beginning
Return to the Beginning

Start Here: Return to the Beginning

A dedicated home for my memoir-in-motion, 'What the Desert Held'—and a storytelling circle for those who’ve lived the rupture and are ready to root again: in voice, in body, in truth.

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Jul 07, 2025
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I’m telling you the story of why I’m doing this.

Not because I have it figured out. Not because I’m some expert in ancient texts or serpents or cycles of collapse and return. But because something in me cracked open in the desert. And I think you might know that feeling too.

So here’s what this is:
It’s me writing.
And maybe you writing alongside me.
It’s no…

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