by Jack Adam Weber | Oct 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
Detachment and ascendent spirituality believe we can liberate ourselves in the present by detaching from and rising above difficulty. This is transcendence. In contrast, body-centered emotional work embraces and works through difficulty to come out the other side,...
by Jack Adam Weber | Jan 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
As children, many of us were shamed or condemned for being wrong or not knowing. With that shame, a wound forms, usually a core wound. As adults, we carry that shame when we are wrong. If we are afraid to feel that shame, we may try to never be wrong. More often, we...
by Jack Adam Weber | Dec 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Honesty is a muscle we have to exercise, or we lose it. It takes work to be honest because many factors work against honesty as a default response. Being honest especially requires emotional resilience, because what’s true is often not easy to stomach. In this...
by Jack Adam Weber | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Each morning I practice tai chi chuan (“tai chi” exercise), I first engage some qi gong warm-ups. Then, before practice, I do the salutation to the form. The salutation itself is beautiful and meaningful, as one fist joins an open palm (Yang within Yin) and they...
by Jack Adam Weber | May 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
We live in a toxically fix-it culture. By which I mean we try to fix everything, which ironically and tragically, breaks us. Emotional injury is a prime example of injury that cannot be healed by an aggressive, fix-it model. In an emotionally illiterate culture, this...
by Jack Adam Weber | May 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Irony Shadow projection Blind spots Accusation as confession Hypocrisy All five are synonymous dynamics. They all hinge on denial, which creates a blind spot or shadow, which is eventually projected as toxic hurt. Such a person also commits hypocrisy because they are...
