About Freyja

I am a writer, educator, emotional wellbeing practitioner, and creator of Naturally Appearing. My work explores non-duality, symbolic metaphor, emotional wellbeing, and the richness of human experience through writing, dialogue, reflective conversation, and creative inquiry.

Around the age of nineteen, I encountered the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin and began what became a lifelong exploration of identity, suffering, perception, non-duality, and the apparent relationship between separation and wholeness. Central to this developing inquiry was the possibility that reality cannot be reduced to simple opposites—that what appears may be both two and not two, without any ultimate cause or explanation that can be known.

Over time, this gave rise to an enduring fascination with the nature of experience itself and the question of whether anything is ever truly separate from the wholeness of life.

Alongside this contemplative exploration, I spent many years working in psychologically informed and wellbeing-oriented settings. My experience included more than a decade as a Human Givens practitioner, alongside study informed by contemporary understandings of emotion, perception, trauma, neuroscience, and the ways in which human beings make sense of themselves and the world around them.

Although these contemplative and psychologically informed explorations initially appeared quite different, they increasingly came to feel inseparable. Questions concerning emotional wellbeing, relationship, meaning, trauma, creativity, spirituality, and ordinary daily life seemed to converge around a shared inquiry into the nature of human experience—and the possibility that even the appearance of fragmentation may never stand outside the wholeness within which it appears.

Alongside this exploration, there also appeared what may best be described as a profound shift in the ordinary experience of identity and separation. It became increasingly difficult to locate the independent self that had previously seemed so obvious. With this came a growing recognition that the wholeness being sought had never truly been absent.

This was not experienced as the acquisition of something new or the attainment of a special state, but more as a relaxation of assumptions that had previously seemed unquestionable. The implications of this apparent shift continue to be explored through writing, dialogue, reflection, relationship, creativity, and ordinary daily life.

This exploration now finds expression through Naturally Appearing, my writing on Substack, books, gatherings, reflective dialogue, and occasional creative and symbolic projects. The themes I explore include inseparability, identity, perception, fear, conditioning, metaphor, unconditional love, and the possibility that nothing stands outside the immediacy of lived experience.

I am the author of The Wholeness of What Is Naturally Appearing: The Inseparability and Inclusivity of No-thing No-thinging.

More recently, this wider inquiry has also begun to find expression through The Universal Family, an evolving symbolic metaphor exploring human experience, relationship, and inseparable wholeness.

None of this is offered as a final conclusion. If anything, the years have brought an increasing appreciation for the mystery of what appears, the richness of ordinary human life, and the possibility that what is being sought may never have been absent in the first place.

Warm wishes,

Freyja