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Tag: intuition

How Empowerment Self-Defense Can Improve Our Relationships
Empowerment Self-Defense, Transformation

How Empowerment Self-Defense Can Improve Our Relationships

September 1, 2023January 23, 2024 Toby 6 mins read

Empowerment self-defense provides choices and practical strategies — both verbal and physical — for dealing with risk, danger, or simple discomfort in ways that support safety and agency.

The First Time: When the Travel Bug Bites
Culture, Nomadism

The First Time: When the Travel Bug Bites

January 25, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

Some people will reminisce—with nostalgia, regret, or a little bit of each—about their first cigarette, their first drink, or their first time trying X (fill […]

Adventure, Africa

Next Up, Cape Town: Meeting the Voice of Intuition

December 24, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

Chapman’s Peak, near one of my possible next homes. The flights are booked. Philadelphia —> NYC —> Amsterdam —> Helsinki. Short pause. Helsinki —> London […]

Nomadism

Reflections on a Birthday: Wandering, Searching, & Answering the Call

October 12, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

Yesterday, I turned 24. The past year has been anything but boring as vagabonded my way from Europe to Africa to the U.S. and back, […]

Nomadism

Time to Move

January 7, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

Once upon a time, nomads—largely hunter gatherers or pastoralists—knew it was time to move when the game animals moved on, or the fields became depleted. […]

Africa

Zanzibar!

November 26, 2014May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

Have you ever written a sonnet?* A sonnet’s beauty and difficulty both lie in the restraints placed around its form. Fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, and […]

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