Cultivating Connections

05/10/2026

We’ve made it! 🫠. Like this post if you know it already!

05/06/2026

Proof copy of my book. This feels like a dream within a dream.

05/03/2026

I wrote this a few days after my first intentional ayahuasca experience back in late 2019

07/07/2025

We’ve just recorded our first new podcast episodes, where we speak honestly about where we’ve been and where we’re going.

We’ve also launched a Substack to share stories, essays, and chapters from our latest creative work–Dying to Live, a story that blends spiritual truth, myth, and the search for meaning in a dying world. You can read the first part here: https://cultivatingconnections.substack.com/p/dying-to-live

03/20/2022

All donations will go towards mental health and addiction treatment
Donations of $30 or more will get a hoodie of your chosen size and a sticker

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02/15/2022

We started this channel with the intention to open up about our life experience with the hope that someone out there might identify with either of our stories and that might lead one to better there life. We want to spread the word that vulnerability can be a major healer.

In this video pick up where we left off from the last podcast episode when Rory returned from California, and what life was like recovering from the traumatic experience there.

We pick up where we left off from the last episode when Rory returned from California, and what life was like recovering from the traumatic experience he had...

02/22/2021

This two and a half minute video is powerful and it sums up what Ryan and I have been working on. The power in connection.

Ollie's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGHWqdR3YCSwOeJFlHO0Y5wThis is an excerpt from a full one hour conversation Ryan and Ollie had together on ...

02/13/2021

Excerpt from a conversation we had with Dr. Rick Barnett - importance of lifelong integration

This clip is taken from Candid Conversations #4 which is uploaded in full on our channel. Dr. Barnett has worked as a Clinical Psychologist in nursing homes,...

02/02/2021

“The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, the opposite of addiction is connection” - Johann Hari

01/28/2021

Keep going, and the longer I did it the more I was like wow, so much gratitude, so much emotion, it’s the most powerful thing I’ve ever discovered - Eye gazing