A personal note about how I use artificial intelligence in creating and supporting this work.

You may have noticed that there is a lot of thought behind how this site is organized.

The Reading Room, the Tools Library, the Collections, and the resources within them are not simply a collection of things I have written or gathered. I want them to have a sense of flow — to make sense logically, but also to feel emotionally safe as you move through them.

Artificial intelligence has become one of the tools I use to help me do that.

I use AI to think through the architecture of the site: how ideas connect, where something belongs, what might naturally come next, and how the Reading Room and Tools Library can support you without becoming overwhelming.

It helps me look at the larger picture.

It can also help me work with story arcs and collections — seeing how individual pieces fit together, whether an idea has been fully explored, or whether something needs to be moved, clarified, or developed before the reader arrives at the next part of the journey.

And I use it to polish my writing.

Sometimes I know exactly what I want to say but the sentence isn’t quite there yet. AI can help me see where the flow is awkward, where something could be clearer, where I have said too much, or where I have said something with too much force.

But the experience behind those words is mine.

I am the observer, the explorer, and the meaning-maker.

I notice what happens in real life. I pay attention to what I feel, what changes, what surprises me, and what old patterns may be showing up beneath a current experience. I explore those experiences rather than simply moving past them, and I look for the meaning that emerges from that exploration.

Then I integrate what I have learned — not simply to understand myself better, but to live more richly and freely than I ever thought possible. I do that work slowly, in my own time, without force.

That is where the work begins.

AI helps me sort through what I discover, clarify the ideas that are emerging, see connections I may not yet have named, and shape those discoveries into writing that may be useful to someone else.

It can help me find the words. It can help me see the larger pattern. It can help me build a collection around an idea that has grown from a real experience.

But it doesn’t have the experience.

It doesn’t decide what is meaningful to me.

And it doesn’t do the emotional work of discovering what an experience is teaching me.

That part remains mine.

I write about what I know. What I have lived. What I have noticed. What I have learned through real-world experience. And, perhaps most importantly, what is meaningful to me.

AI doesn’t give me those experiences or decide what matters to me. It doesn’t replace the reflection that happens before I sit down to write, or the analysis I bring when deciding what belongs here.

I remain the person making those choices.

That distinction matters to me because this work is ultimately about something very human: noticing what is happening within us, making sense of our experiences, and finding our way forward with greater understanding.

There is another reason I use AI.

My time is limited, and I want to spend as much of it as I can doing the work that only I can do — being present with clients.

The Reading Room and Tools Library are part of that intention. They give you places to explore, reflect, and return to between sessions. They can offer a question to sit with, a different perspective to consider, or a practical tool to help you work with something that has come up.

AI helps me create, organize, refine, and maintain those resources more efficiently.

That means I can spend less time wrestling with the mechanics of building and maintaining a growing library, and more time in conversation with the people who come to me for support.

I don’t see AI as replacing the human part of this work. I see it as helping to make more room for it.

So yes, AI is part of the process here. It helps with structure. It helps me see connections. It helps with story arcs. It helps me polish words and organize ideas. It helps me build a site that I hope feels easier to navigate and more useful to you.

But the perspective, experience, care, and choices behind the work remain mine.

And I hope that as you explore it, you find something of value here — and perhaps, along the way, a sense of kinship.

A feeling that someone else has noticed some of the things you have noticed, wondered about some of the things you have wondered about, and perhaps found their way through something you are finding your way through too.