Hey Friends! Have you ever felt like there's so much you want to do, so many ideas swimming in your head— and then you sit down at your computer and... nothing happens? Your brain suddenly goes blank. Or worse, it floods with questions : "Which project should I tackle first ?" "Is this even the right thing to focus on?" "What if I spend hours on this and it doesn't work?" Before you know it, 30 minutes have passed while you've been staring at your screen, paralyzed by a decision, scrolling...
over 1 year ago • 10 min read
Hello Friends, The person you are, or rather the person you believe yourself to be, only exists because of the evidence you have collected. They exist because of the programming, beliefs, thoughts, patterns, coping mechanisms, and cycles that have become the evidence you use to support the person you believe you are. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." — Aristotle The process of healing, self-actualization, or evolution is about creating and...
over 1 year ago • 4 min read
Hello Friend The quantum physicist John Wheeler once said that "no phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon." The very act of observation fundamentally changes what we're observing. Scientists discovered this when studying subatomic particles—they behave differently when watched versus when unwatched. But this isn't just some abstract scientific principle. It's the hidden mechanism behind everything you're experiencing in your reality right now. Your consciousness is...
over 1 year ago • 6 min read
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.” Pema Chodron When Things Fall Apart I have a tattoo of "The Ouroborus" in the center of my chest, a mythical symbol representing the never-ending cycle of life and death. A snake that eats itself. Inside it are the words "Everything is nothing without within" this tattoo serves as a reminder that as my body sheds cells that have died. I to must shed beliefs, identities...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
Hello friends, Have you ever felt disconnected from the world around you, even when surrounded by people? You crave genuine connection, yet something always seems to hold you back. It's a common struggle, especially for those who value authenticity and deep relationships. What if the very thing you're doing to protect yourself is what's keeping you isolated? Think of it this way: You're building walls to keep out potential harm, but those walls are also blocking the flow of love, joy, and...
over 1 year ago • 4 min read
Hello Friends, I haven't been posting as much anywhere because I have been doing deep inner work to remove some blockages in my ability to do outer work. I figured I would share what is going on and a real-world example of how I am working through it. I left America, my job, my relationship, and my family behind to travel to Asia, train in martial arts, and build my business. Within the first three months, I grew my Instagram from 2k-30k and my newsletter from 200 to 3k. Everything was going...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
Hello Friends, The other day, I realized something that should have been obvious since it has been staring me in the face for my whole life. My entire identity has been based on asking myself who Grisha is—what kind of man he is, a son, brother, friend, or lover. Yesterday was the first time that I began to wonder why. Why Grisha? Why create an identity with so much certainty, so much idealization and romanticization? To get to where I am now I would have to go back to the beginning. I was an...
over 1 year ago • 3 min read
Hello Friends In all of my own inner work and in all the work that I have done with clients there is a a singular emotion/feeling responsible for almost all subjective misery. Do you ever get the feeling like everything you do is wrong? You sit down to journal and you can't even answer the prompt in front of you. You are so scared to make the wrong choice that indecision runs your life. Like every negative emotion you experience is a direct result of your own incompetence or inherent...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
Hello Friends, It has been a while I have had a feeling lately, a certainty disguised as a suspicion. I am in Japan right now, Tokyo to be exact. It is one of my favorite places in the world (as it almost always is for everyone that isn't from here.) I hate thinking about how to structure newsletters to "hold readers attention" so I am just going to say what I want to say and hope it reaches the right eyes and minds. To me the whole spiritual journey is about one thing. Kindness. Or rather...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
