On my About page, I shared that the breakthrough for me wasn't a new idea — it was realizing how everything I'd already learned connected. This page is that connection made visible. These are the people, traditions, and books SHIFT is built on. It's not my ideas alone; it's a synthesis.

Resources

Nervous System & the Body

Gabor Maté
The Wisdom of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk
The Body Keeps the Score

Dan Siegel
Parenting From The Inside Out

Internal Family Systems

Richard Schwartz
There Are No Bad Parts

Depth Psychology

Carl Jung

Recovery & 12-Step Wisdom

Alcoholics Anonymous (the Big Book)

Harry Tiebout

Ernest Kurtz
The Spirituality of Imperfection

Contemplative & Nondual Spirituality

Richard Rohr
Breathing Under Water

Adyashanti

Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now, A Whole New Earth

Ram Dass
Be Here Now

Alan Watts
The Way of Zen

Anthony de Mello

Michael Singer
The Untethered Soul

Rumi

"A mind that is stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.