Leaving the Palace (Tricycle)
Buddhism, womanhood, and my journey towards authentic selfhood.
The Myth of Moving On: An Interview with Suleika Jaouad (Tricycle)
In 2013, Jaouad won an Emmy for Life, Interrupted, a NYT video series chronicling her battle with cancer. Her 2019 TED talk, “What almost dying taught me about living,” has garnered over four million views. We spoke about Buddhist principles and her journey back to the kingdom of the well.
How Awakening to Our Ancestors’ Stories Fuels the Creative Process (Narrative Healing)
The stories of our ancestors lie dormant until we awaken to them. And their greatest power lives in how we engage with them, in the nexus between what they meant to our ancestors and what they mean to us.
A Journey Between Lives (Tricycle: The Buddhist Review)
I explore how I found my way back to my ancestors through The Tibetan Book of the Dead. “Even as I gradually understood more about The Tibetan Book of the Dead, its essence eluded me… Then two things happened that changed my understanding of the book, as well as my view of how to live my life.”
Lessons from My College Son, While We Were Home Together (The Washington Post)
This is what happened when my son flew back to the nest from college because of COVID-19. “We fell into familiar rhythms — meals together, walks around the city, long talks — but with one big difference: My son is now an adult. He’s also part of the politically aware generation born between the mid-1990s and early 2000s that includes environmental activist Greta Thunberg and gun control advocate Emma González.”