Wayward Haven Farm

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  • On Living Through a Mad World

    It’s a mad world right now — not just in the headlines, but in the grocery aisles, the rent payments, and the quiet fear of not being able to keep up. When the outer world… Read the Essay

  • Finding Your Way Back When the Brain Has Other Plans

    The brain has its own plans — lists, catastrophes, imagined futures. None of it means anything is wrong with you. The work is simply noticing when attention has slipped away and gently guiding it back… Read the Essay

  • On Energetic Grounding in an Age of Constant Activation

    We live in a world that thrives on our activation — a constant hum of urgency, vigilance, and emotional baiting. But our bodies weren’t built for this pace, and our lives weren’t meant to be… Read the Essay

  • Why the Basics Are the First to Go

    When life feels urgent, the quiet things—sleep, nourishment, movement—are often the first to go. But these basics shape the conditions of a steady life. This week, the Hermit reflects on why we abandon what sustains… Read the Essay

  • When the Body Calls You Back

    How often do we ignore our inner yearnings—the pull toward peace, retreat, solitude, rhythm? How often do we answer the email, the text, the call simply because we’ve assigned urgency to it? And what do… Read the Essay

  • On Soil, Capacity, and the Life We’re Actually Living

    There’s a saying that floats around from time to time—Bloom where you’re planted. There’s some truth in it. The soil we’re planted in is the set of conditions we didn’t choose: the family we were… Read the Essay

  • On What Fills the Field

    Some mornings I sit here and notice how easily we crowd the field of attention. Sometimes it’s because something painful is pressing through the cracks—old fears, old griefs, the quiet dread that comes with being… Read the Essay