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What Is Reclamation? (And Why It Comes Before Transformation)
This is where my perspective differs from much of the personal growth world. We’re often taught that healing means transforming ourselves into something better. Become more confident.Become more successful.Become more spiritual.Become more healed. The message is subtle, but it often sounds like: “You are not enough as you are. You…
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The Path From Thought to Experience
Most people are taught to pay attention to what they can see. The symptom. The behavior. The reaction. The result. But by the time we notice those things, a process has often been unfolding beneath the surface for quite some time. What we experience externally is frequently connected to patterns…
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The Mind-Body Conversation
What if your body has been trying to talk to you all along? Not in words. Not in complete sentences. But through sensations, emotions, reactions, tension, fatigue, discomfort, and patterns that keep asking for your attention. Many of us are taught to view the mind and body as separate. The…
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Returning to Your Original Blueprint
There is a version of you that existed before the coping strategies. Before the survival patterns. Before the stories that taught you who you had to be in order to belong, succeed, stay safe, or be loved. I call this your original blueprint. Not because life was perfect. Not because…
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McDough Goes to Montenegro: The Ajvar & Roasted Garlic Sourdough Adventure
Some loaves are planned. Some loaves have plans of their own. This one appears to be the second kind. The original idea was simple enough: take everything I’ve been falling in love with here in Montenegro and turn it into bread. Ajvar. Roasted garlic. A touch of rye flour for…
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The Great Tomato Rescue Mission
Sometimes the best meals aren’t planned. In fact, this one started because I forgot to roast garlic. I had levain sitting on the counter for a loaf of bread I wanted to make—a roasted garlic, ajvar, and Vegeta sourdough with a little rye flour and sesame seeds on top. My…
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Vegeta Is Something I Will Never Forgeta
If you’ve never been to the Balkans, you’ve probably never tried Vegeta. If you’ve spent any amount of time in the Balkans, you’ve almost certainly eaten it whether you realized it or not.
