Category: about myself
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i think the new moon brings out the best in me.
the new moon seems to connect me to that line better than any other lunar phase. maybe it’s a shadow thing. not sure, but i dig it. sometimes when i sit down to write, like today, i have no idea what the finished piece is going to look like. but, it happens all the same.…
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on entrepreneurship as a way to fight my way out of generational poverty
over the course of my adult life, i’ve had 14 different jobs and failed out of college twice out of the three times i’ve attended. only one job lasted longer than a year. that should have been a huge tell that i wasn’t like most others, but somehow, i didn’t figure out that i had…
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life is forever building upon itself.
sometime within the last four years or so, i was taking a shower while my wife sat in the bathroom with me, and we were talking, nothing but the shower curtain between us. we do this a lot. i value my alone time, but when taking a shower, there’s something really special about this time…
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how did i get here?
at 30 years old, in december 2022, i had spent basically the entirety of my adult life clinically depressed. i didn’t realize how bad it really was until i was out of it. i have a pretty tenacious habit of intellectualizing my feelings instead of like, feeling and processing them. i get the tingles in…
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who i am
so, if i’m gonna stake my claim on my own corner of the internet, it’s probably best that you know who i am? yeah? so yeah. i’m eisley. or salem. i’m good with either, they’re both legally my name. i am an integrative changeworker. a life coach who is still coming around to claiming the…