Articles
Essays on identity, insight and embodiment, and why change doesn't always stick.
By John El-Mokadem
Can a feeling become so familiar that we forget what else is possible?
As some of my readers might know, there has been a lot of grief in our family recently, which has had me revisiting something I used to teach.
In my work with the Three Principles, we always talked about how...
By John El-Mokadem
What an accidental Substack email reminded me about growth, loss and becoming someone new.
Hello everyone - yes, it’s John! 😂
I say this because today you may have received an email from an alternate timeline with a Substack written by Julien, who works behind the scenes with u...
By John El-Mokadem
Why tiredness during periods of transformation may not always mean what we think it does
In my last Substack, I wrote about how surprised I was at how physical the experience of grief could be.
It wasn’t just the emotions that came with losing a loved one, but the sense that my...