You may have noticed there hasn’t been a podcast in a few weeks, and there may not be one for a few more. It will come forward.
As the year turns, I’ve noticed a shift in what feels important to pay attention to, and it’s needed my time and development.
Not in the sense of goals or resolutions, but in the texture of how growth actually happens over time. What allows something in a person to stabilize, to carry forward, to take form in the world rather than remain an insight or a feeling.
One thing that’s come into clearer view for me is the role of personal will. Not will as force or self-improvement, and not will as control, but will as the quiet capacity to choose, to stay with something, to orient one’s life without outsourcing that orientation to circumstance, emotion, or authority.
This isn’t a new idea, but it’s one that’s easy to lose sight of in realms that emphasize healing, compassion, or surrender. Those matter. And so does the ability to act, to decide, to author one’s life in small, ordinary, ongoing ways. Lately I’ve been more curious about how these capacities relate, and what happens when one is asked to do the work of all the others.
You’ll be hearing more, in time, about this inquiry into how people actually mature — not just internally, but in how they live, relate, and take responsibility for their lives.
Some of this will likely make its way into the podcast as these questions continue to unfold. For now, I simply wanted to name that the listening has shifted a little, and to let that be the tone of the new year.
Wishing you a grounded and steady beginning to 2026.
Warmly,
Josef