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Man fully alive.

I am fascinated by the human person. By what we love, why we suffer, how we find meaning, and what it actually takes to heal and grow. I'm a clinical psychologist by training, and creative and contemplative by disposition, more interested in people than in theories about them.

Most of my work comes down to one question: how do you stay a whole person in a world built to pull you apart? I sit with people in the ordinary wreckage of that, the anxiety, the distraction, the sense of being scattered across a hundred screens, and help them come home to themselves.

I also believe artificial intelligence is the defining shift of our lifetime, and I don't think the response is to stand outside it and worry. I've spent the last few years becoming fluent in it: building tools and systems, testing where it helps and where it harms, and asking how technology can serve human formation rather than erode it. That intersection of the human person and the machine is where I most want to work, as a psychologist, a writer, and increasingly a builder.

I came to all of it the long way. I was an atheist for years and found faith slowly, through my questions rather than around them. I'm Catholic now, and it's the deepest layer of how I understand the person, though you don't need to share it to find something real here. I lead worship, and most of my thinking lands first in The Inner Exodus. Whether you came for the psychology, the technology, the faith, or just a sense that modern life is costing us more than we admit, I'm glad you're here.

Healing

Clinical psychology in the light of grace: therapy, discernment, and the slow repair of the interior life.

Worship

Leading people into the presence of God through music, the posture the whole work flows from.

Teaching

Essays, books, and talks on faith, psychology, and the age of AI. Formation for people who refuse to be automated.

Free to keep

A few things that cost nothing.

Examen AI

A free, on-device app for the nightly examen and confession prep. No account, no data leaves your phone.

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Divine Dialogue

A short guide to hearing God's voice in prayer, identity, and emotional healing.

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Come, Spirit of Power

A Pentecost novena for mission, witness, and bold love.

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The Altar of Christ

A novena for priestly vocations and the renewal of the Church.

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“The glory of God is man fully alive, and the life of man is the vision of God.”

St. Irenaeus of Lyons

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