# [Fractal Cafe](https://amandango.substack.com/) ## An invitation to my cottage [Each Friday, from 1:30–3pm PST, I will be holding space. You are welcome to drop in.](https://amandango.substack.com/p/an-invitation-to-my-cottage) Jun 22 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ## 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…](https://amandango.substack.com/p/when-we-stop-holding-and-coregulate) Jun 17 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ## 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…](https://amandango.substack.com/p/i-want-you-to-impact-me) Jun 3 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### May 2026 ## When grief comes to visit, offer her your best chair [I miss you, all the time.](https://amandango.substack.com/p/when-grief-comes-to-visit-offer-her) May 27 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### April 2026 ## Birth, death, and the way of the warrior [The healing path asks us to die, and be reborn, over and over.](https://amandango.substack.com/p/birth-death-and-the-way-of-the-warrior) Apr 28 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### January 2026 ## Touching divinity [Divinity beyond mind, awakening through the body, the knowing of true nature.](https://amandango.substack.com/p/touching-divinity) Jan 25 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### June 2025 ## Sherpa: a collective database of healing journeys [Introducing Sherpa, a collective database of healing journeys](https://amandango.substack.com/p/sherpa-a-collective-database-of-healing) Jun 22, 2025 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ## 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…](https://amandango.substack.com/p/four-pathways-to-healing-self-imagined) Jun 9, 2025 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### 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."](https://amandango.substack.com/p/on-traveling-through-time) Mar 2, 2025 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### December 2024 ## A pearl of attunement [The deeper I go into the mysteries, the harder it is to talk about them.](https://amandango.substack.com/p/a-pearl-of-attunement) Dec 3, 2024 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### 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.](https://amandango.substack.com/p/new-horizons-in-healing-a-map-of) Aug 20, 2024 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ## I love you, get back on your bicycle [Your elbows and knees are covered with dust.](https://amandango.substack.com/p/i-love-you-get-back-on-your-bicycle) Aug 6, 2024 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### May 2024 ## Being-doing, an opening to possibilities, and a taster of healing modalities [Hi wonderful humans,](https://amandango.substack.com/p/being-doing-an-opening-to-possibilities) May 14, 2024 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### 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.](https://amandango.substack.com/p/ai-wellbeing-dashboard-optimizing) Sep 26, 2023 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### June 2023 ## Wellbeing <> AI: Reflections from a weekend of building [Improving our wellbeing feels like the fundamental goal underlying progress.](https://amandango.substack.com/p/wellbeing-ai-reflections-from-a-weekend) Jun 13, 2023 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### 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…](https://amandango.substack.com/p/a-vision-of-a-better-psychological) Jan 24, 2022 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ### December 2021 ## 2700 hours sleeping, self-belief, and a lot of great books [A year in review](https://amandango.substack.com/p/2700-hours-sleeping-self-belief-and) Dec 26, 2021 • [Amanda](https://substack.com/@amandango) --- ## Beliefs are the architecture of the mind [Every second, we rewrite reality.](https://amandango.substack.com/p/beliefs-are-the-architecture-of-the) Dec 23, 2021 • [Amanda](https://amandango.substack.com/@amandango) --- ## 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…](https://amandango.substack.com/p/hosting-yourself-with-generous-authority) Dec 11, 2021 • [Amanda](https://amandango.substack.com/@amandango) --- ## November 2021 ## Coming soon [This is Fractal Cafe.](https://amandango.substack.com/p/coming-soon) Nov 14, 2021 • [Amanda](https://amandango.substack.com/@amandango)