Thank you to everyone reading from more than fifty countries. This blog has always been about the inner world — the storms, the deserts, the caves, the oceans we carry inside us. Wherever you’re reading from, I invite you to walk these inner landscapes with me and share in the journey they reveal.

If you’ve connected with my poems, my bipolar reflections, my trauma work, or the spiritual conflict woven through my writing, Internal Geography is the book that gathers all of it into one story.

What’s inside the book

Internal Geography — Universal Summary for All Audiences

Internal Geography is a five‑stage poetic exploration of trauma, healing, identity, and emotional survival. Drawing from military service, global travel, addiction recovery, bipolar disorder, and spiritual conflict, the book maps the inner landscapes people carry — storms, deserts, oceans, and quiet places of reckoning.

For American Readers

A raw, honest look at veteran memory, masculinity, mental health, and the search for meaning in modern American life.

For Educators & Researchers

A lived‑experience text offering insight into trauma narratives, veteran studies, emotional geography, and cross‑cultural identity formation. Useful for courses in psychology, literature, trauma studies, and contemporary poetics.

For International Readers

A universal story of inner struggle and renewal shaped by experiences across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States — written in imagery that resonates across cultures.

In One Line

A map of the inner world drawn through poetry, memory, and survival.

Blending masculine vulnerability with spiritual depth, the book offers a raw, honest journey through trauma, identity, and renewal. It speaks to anyone navigating their own storms — offering both a mirror and a map.

• veteran memory
• addiction and recovery
• masculinity and vulnerability
• Christian + Wiccan symbolism
• bipolar emotional architecture
• global travel shaping mythic imagery

It’s the long journey behind the short posts.

Why I wrote it

Because every person, in every country, carries an inner landscape. Because pain and healing are universal. Because art crosses borders.

Read Internal Geography

Follow the Amazon link to purchase the Kindle edition: https://a.co/d/0ab66JA5

Paperback available soon on Amazon.

Thank you for being part of this global conversation. Your presence matters.