Fractal Cafe

An invitation to my cottage

Each Friday, from 1:30–3pm PST, I will be holding space. You are welcome to drop in.
Jun 22 • Amanda

When we stop holding (and coregulate)

It’s not a doing / addition move – there’s nothing you’re adding on top of what’s happening. It’s a subtraction. You stop the holding, and release into…
Jun 17 • Amanda

I want you to impact me

You will buffet me. You will trigger me. You will knock me off the tightropes I am balancing on, turn my reality inside out, humble me over and over. I…
Jun 3 • Amanda

May 2026

When grief comes to visit, offer her your best chair

I miss you, all the time.
May 27 • Amanda

April 2026

Birth, death, and the way of the warrior

The healing path asks us to die, and be reborn, over and over.
Apr 28 • Amanda

January 2026

Touching divinity

Divinity beyond mind, awakening through the body, the knowing of true nature.
Jan 25 • Amanda

June 2025

Sherpa: a collective database of healing journeys

Introducing Sherpa, a collective database of healing journeys
Jun 22, 2025 • Amanda

Four Pathways to Healing: Self, Imagined Other, Manifest Other, and the Divine

Healing happens where there is a meeting. To truly unburden and release the pain our parts have been carrying, they must be met, received, and…
Jun 9, 2025 • Amanda

March 2025

On Traveling through Time

"When the time of our ordinary mind stops, we enter into the time of Spirit, the Sacred Time, the time when everything is possible."
Mar 2, 2025 • Amanda

December 2024

A pearl of attunement

The deeper I go into the mysteries, the harder it is to talk about them.
Dec 3, 2024 • Amanda

August 2024

New horizons in healing | A map of the space

My map of the healing space, and where I'm excited for more work to happen.
Aug 20, 2024 • Amanda

I love you, get back on your bicycle

Your elbows and knees are covered with dust.
Aug 6, 2024 • Amanda

May 2024

Being-doing, an opening to possibilities, and a taster of healing modalities

Hi wonderful humans,
May 14, 2024 • Amanda

September 2023

AI Wellbeing Dashboard: Optimizing AI for long-term wellbeing

TLDR; AI should support our long-term wellbeing: Wellbeing is fundamentally what we care about.
Sep 26, 2023 • Amanda

June 2023

Wellbeing <> AI: Reflections from a weekend of building

Improving our wellbeing feels like the fundamental goal underlying progress.
Jun 13, 2023 • Amanda

January 2022

A vision of a better psychological future

Recently, I’ve been unable to stop thinking about the state of our collective psychology. A mass of ideas and possibilities of what the future could…
Jan 24, 2022 • Amanda

December 2021

2700 hours sleeping, self-belief, and a lot of great books

A year in review
Dec 26, 2021 • Amanda

Beliefs are the architecture of the mind

Every second, we rewrite reality.
Dec 23, 2021 • Amanda

Hosting yourself with generous authority

Spoiler alert: In the third season of the British TV show Downtown Abbey, the charming blue-eyed husband of the protagonist, Mary Crawley, dies in a…
Dec 11, 2021 • Amanda

November 2021

Coming soon

This is Fractal Cafe.
Nov 14, 2021 • Amanda