Thinking for Yourself
The Volunteering Trap
I spent twenty years confusing exhaustion with devotion. Here's how volunteering becomes a cage - and the one question that reveals whether your generosity is a choice or a compulsion.
These articles are about noticing how easy it is to outsource your thinking. Seven years inside an organization that called itself spiritual taught me how a community can borrow your discernment without you noticing. The pieces here test the mechanics: how belief installs, how certainty masks manipulation, how verification becomes its own trap.
Thinking for Yourself
I spent twenty years confusing exhaustion with devotion. Here's how volunteering becomes a cage - and the one question that reveals whether your generosity is a choice or a compulsion.
Thinking for Yourself
Discover why most of what you believe comes from others-and why you can't tell the difference. 20 years of practice, one uncomfortable truth.
Thinking for Yourself
Spiritual organizations are still organizations. That obvious fact has implications nobody talks about. Including the slow drift from mission to maintenance.