You know that restless feeling that something’s missing, that things could be different? I call that ache, and I believe it’s the most fundamental human experience.

We feel separate but long for wholeness. That same ache that drives us to seek love or create art is also what drives entire social movements.

The real question is whether we use it to open life up—or to shut it down.

My work traces how this ache becomes gravity. The way attention organizes bodies, stories, and cultures. Through embodied practice, psychological inquiry, and mythic imagination, I teach people to recognize ache not as pathology, but as a compass. Ache is how the body tells time, how memory and longing fold into the present, and how collective futures are woven.

I study how time lives in the body, and how the stories we tell can reshape both personal lives and shared worlds. In my teaching, writing, and workshops, I help people learn to sense, name, and create with the ache, so that what feels like lack becomes an opening toward connection, creativity, and liberation.