Going Beyond…
Where I discuss my writing practice and emotional regulation process as I dive deeper into pieces.
When someone enters Beyond, they enter into extensions of the offerings posted on this Sanctuary. This is a place where the community can experience me more up close and witness how I transmute during my journaling sessions. Reading my own journal entries as I narrate, I will take you through my Sacred Practice process, procrastination, and mental blockages I experience as I put thoughts on paper. I give commentary as I read, reflecting on the entry’s seemingly irrelevant details and hidden insights. With Beyond, I aim to take readers beyond nicely written words to the heart of matters.
Beyond is for the curious and brave ones who want to witness and learn about emotional alchemy and the Sacred Practice of journaling, and wish to go beyond the polished and put-together, deeper into this Digital Sanctuary and my offerings.
The Blueprint:
10+ years of Journaling
Inspired by my Journal Entry segment on the Sanctuary, Beyond came to be out of a rising need for more humanity, for more of the human experience and its messiness, for more of the challenges and resilience that keep us going.
With current technologies giving us information in no time, I wanted to go beyond the surface level of easily accessible answers because I know from experience that some answers ask for investments. Some ask for stillness. Some ask us to mess around and find out. Some ask us to challenge ourselves just a bit more. Not a generic answer, not a universal solution, some of our most pressing personal challenges ask us for Presence before anything. In Beyond, we give Presence its place. We learn to become aware of- and master awareness of Being.
Witness and learn from the skill of sitting with yourself wholeheartedly.
Whenever I write in my journals, I have very intimate writing sessions. To honor the intimate, delicate, and personal nature of these entries, I am cautious of how I share them. The lessons, insights, and experiences shared in my journals are to be treated with respect for the journey that brought them. This respect is not something that I expect from every reader—hence a place Beyond for those invested in learning from experience, for those who can hold space for my vulnerabilities as I share them in confidence, and for those who resonate with my messages.
Sharing raw entries directly as they were written from my Sacred Practice means that I am sharing parts of our humanity and the challenges we may face in our journeys: loneliness, fulfillment, money, success, insecurities and confidence, self-trust and belief, heartbreak, love, loss, God and the spiritual realm, faith, hope, practicality, and “thoughts” as the one shared below.
Members with access to Beyond share the desire to grow, to get over ourselves, to meet ourselves beyond our limitations, beyond pain, beyond trauma, beyond culture and religion, beyond so many mental labels, beyond shoulds and shouldn’ts, beyond self-pity and anything that stands in the way of us Being. To be part of Beyond is to dare to sit with the messiness before and beyond the wisdom they bring.
Members get…
- Extensions in publications with an exclusive section where we go Beyond the post;
- Intimate reflections recorded in audio format, diving deeper into the posts;
- Access to Journal Entry posts with images of the actual entries, from beginning to end in a separate section;
- Exclusive downloadable audio files of reflections shared in Beyond Episodes. (Beyond consists of downloadable episodes :));
- Continued access to The Beyond Files for personal reflections on the website and all posts that go Beyond.
Beyond creates an atmosphere and contributes to conditions for all Members to go beyond whenever they deem fit, have a need for it, want a reminder or encouragement from someone as human as them with over a decade of investments in himself.