Writings

The journey, the work, and the body’s intelligence.

I write to lay out the journey — the highs and the lows — because sharing it might connect to someone else. These are essays in my own voice, as they come.

Featured · Journey·5 min

The Wounded Healer

Why I finally sat down to write it all — and why the layers of the earth explain a life better than any onion ever could.

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Journey·June 2026

How the Ankrum Institute Was Born

A cease-and-desist letter, two years of paperwork, a friend floating in a Costa Rican pool — and a school that turned out to have its own heartbeat.

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Journey·May 2026

Afraid, and Doing It Anyway

A year of commuting from Chicago to a manor house in Devon taught me that courage isn't the absence of fear — and that you must hold the whole and the particular at once.

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The Work·May 2026

The Treatment Plan Is in the Body

Five years in a Canadian osteopathic program broke my habits of thought and gave me the sentence I've built everything on since.

5 min

Letters from Leigh

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