Stable Awakening

What I Do

By combining psychology and spirituality, I help people navigate the process of nonduality—popularly known as spiritual awakening or enlightenment.

I will walk with you, like I have with many others, to return to that authentic place of peace at the center of your being. I will help you release the many layers of self-betrayal, shame, doubt, and anxiety that we inflict upon ourselves in order to survive our childhood and win acceptance from the world. When we release these burdens, it feels like armor falling from our shoulders or sludge leaving our body. Our spirit feels lighter and cleaner, our heart flows open and our mind becomes free.

I’ve walked this path myself and I will hold the space with a steady hand as you come to the center of your own authentic truth. When you arrive, you will feel it in your cells. Your eyes will be steady, your voice confident, your heart at peace. Your feet will stand firmly at the center of your world. You will feel like your true self.

How I work

The process of liberation can be wonderful, but it can be destabilizing if the ego structure is not ready for it. To help you cultivate psychological stability both before and after awakening, I use different methods of inner work inspired by Internal Family Systems (IFS), solution-focused therapy, Jungian shadow work, and psychodrama.

My spiritual influences include sacred teachings from around the world, including Buddhism, Kabbalah, Christian mysticism, Sufism, shamanism, and naturalism (atheism). I am indebted to several nondual teachers who helped me stabilize my own awakening. In particular, I owe gratitude to the direct teachings of Saeed Khan and Chuck Ceraso, as well as the writings and talks of Adyashanti, Alan Watts, and Jack Kornfield.

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What I believe

I believe spirituality is a natural part of human psychology and represents the deepest parts of what it means to be human. When we combine the mental clarity and rigor of psychological work with the love and sacred depth of spiritual investigation, our life becomes more balanced and profound.

As mind-altering practices become more and more common, a greater number of people are waking up to nonduality or are interested in awakening. However, there is little coherent guidance as to what awakening really is or what happens after awakening. I believe the more people live from a place of nonduality, the more loving, wise, and peaceful our world will be.

Historically, sacred traditions are the ways human beings have confronted the fundamental mystery of existence. As the world becomes more connected, I believe we need new ways to integrate the wisdom of the world’s sacred traditions so that we can wield our modern power with clear eyes and live meaningful lives both in the 21st century and beyond.

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Professional History

For the past three years I have worked as a life coach and spiritual guide. After an awakening experience in the summer of 2022, I felt called to make nonduality and spiritual awakening the focus of my work. Alongside my spiritual guidance and coaching work, I am a therapist in training at Loyola University in New Orleans where I am working toward my masters in clinical counseling.

Since 2021 I have practiced shadow work and psychodrama as part of the Mankind Project, a men’s organization informed by Jungian psychology. In 2020 I completed the Glean Spiritual Entrepreneurship Fellowship in partnership with Colombia Business School and in 2019 was a fellow at the Sacred Design Lab.

While completing my bachelors at Yale University, I studied existentialism, sociology, and comparative theology.

My Journey​

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In the summer of 2022, in preparation for a four day fast in the high sierra desert, I had a profound experience of nonduality. This experience lasted for two weeks and fundamentally shifted my conception of myself and my relationship with the world.

This awakening came as the culmination of two years of intensive inner work. With the help of my coaches, medicine community, and men’s group, I confronted core wounds from childhood, my relationship with my parents, and the generational traumas of the holocaust. With every step on this path, I came to love and accept myself, and the world, more and more.

My journey was also supported by the psychonauts, shamans, priestesses, jesters, and magicians I discovered in New Orleans and who embraced me as one of their own. Lastly, I am deeply indebted to the love of my partner who was the flint of my awakening and who has been a constant teacher ever since.

 When I’m Not Working 

I live in New Orleans with my partner and our two cats, Muffin Man and Biscuit Boy. We are foodies, aspiring gym rats, and lovers of the X-files.

Playing 8-ball at the local dive bars is one of my favorite forms of meditation. And while I love traveling to new places, one of my favorite things about leaving New Orleans is coming back to New Orleans.

At night, I like to walk alone in quiet places and listen to the stars.

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Books That Have Influenced Me

The End of Your World — Adyashanti

Journey of the Heart — John Wellwood

The Bhagavad Gita

The Varieties of Religious Experience — William James

The Kabbalah and its Symbolism — Gershom Scholem

The Gay Science — Friedrich Nietzsche

Existentialism as a Humanism — Jean Paul Sartre

One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Working With Me

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How I Work

In my sessions I rely on both psychological and spiritual perspectives and tools.

The process before awakening and after awakening is very similar. Before awakening, the goal is to untangle the conditioning and beliefs you took on about your identity and about the world. After you have an experience of nonduality, the work becomes about letting go of the remainder of your conditioning and beliefs.

This whole process is like untying sandbags from a hot air balloon so that it can become lighter and lighter. When you rise above the clouds, that’s your awakening: you know what it looks like up there. But usually what happens is you come back down to earth. The goal is then to continue releasing whatever is still pulling you down into separation and unconsciousness.

To untangle the conditioning of the mind, I use different methods of inner work inspired by Internal Family Systems (IFS), solution-focused therapy, Jungian shadow work, and psychodrama. I also rely on guided meditation, Jungian active imagination, and nondual induction.

For those who are independently exploring methods of consciousness expansion that involve psychedelics or medicine work, I provide guidance, support, and integration, but do not offer or facilitate these kinds of journeys.

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Who I work with

I love to work with anyone who sincerely wants to find the truth of this world and live authentically from core of their being. I work with those just starting their inner work as well as people who have been on the path for many years and are looking for intermediate or advanced guidance.

Those seeking life mastery — For those interested in living full, meaningful lives, I will help you set the foundations of a stable life: purpose, confidence, integrity, effectiveness, and love. This serves as the bedrock for living a fulfilling life and is also the prerequisite for any serious spiritual work and a stable awakening to nonduality.

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Those seeking spiritual awakening — For those interested in spiritual awakening, I will help you prepare for, approach, and stabilize the state of nonduality, also known as enlightenment.

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Those who've already had an awakening — Sometimes, those I work with have already had a profound experience of nonduality, whether just a moment or lasting many days and weeks. They may be searching for answers about what’s happened to them and where to go from here.

I will help you integrate and mature your initial awakening so that you are not caught in a cycle of "I've got it, I've lost it." Similarly, I help newly awakening individuals avoid some of the early traps of awakening, including spiritual superiority, the enlightened ego, meaninglessness, among others.

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Those in spiritual emergency — Sometimes, the process of spiritual awakening is so intense or so rapid it can become a spiritual crisis. In times like this, you may find it difficult to function in the world and it may even feel like you’re losing your mind. I offer clear and steady guidance about how to integrate the intense psychic energies that can arise after an awakening.

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Who This Work Is Not For

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Those seeking to manifest worldly success. — This work is not a life improvement plan. I don’t promise you will make more money or manifest an ideal life. Your life may improve and you may find greater success, but that is not the point. The point is not to become your “best self” but to rest in the peace with who you already are.

Those seeking magical abilities. — I do not promise you will gain or experience supernatural abilities or miracles. Magical abilities, or siddhi, are traditionally considered distractions on the path and will be treated as such.

Those experiencing psychosis. — I do not work with people who are experiencing psychotic breaks or clinical mental illness. Although intense spiritual awakenings can resemble psychosis, they are not the same and require different treatments. If I suspect you are experiencing psychosis I will recommend you seek an appropriate mental health provider.

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For those interested in working with me, I offer 30 minute consultations free of charge. These meetings are a chance for us to get to know one another. It will be a chance for you to tell me your intentions for this work and what you hope to accomplish by working with me. I'll ask a few basic questions to see if we'll be a good fit, and if so, we'll discuss what it could look like to work together.

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