Welcome

I’m Kelly Carlin and I mostly write stories about my life.

I’m also a solo show performer, producer and founder of Humans on the Verge, a coaching program that helps people loosen the grip on the internal life stories that hold them back.

I’m excited to be here because I’m hungry to have a home where I can share ideas, stories and random ponderings about the things that fascinate me the most - how we become who we are, figuring out how to give ourselves permission to be who we want to be and yet, how in the end that search always seems to be a distraction to finding real joy and peace.

The three topics that I seem to return to over and over are creativity, psychology and my spiritual curiosity that has mostly been fulfilled through Zen Buddhism. I’ve got my masters in Jungian psychology, been practicing Zen Buddhism in the Thich Nhat Hahn tradition for 25 years and have spent most of the last 30 years trying to get out of my own way creatively so I can live and tell the story of my life.

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I’ll be writing new stuff, sharing stuff that has never seen the light of day and republishing some things from other times and places. Paid subscribers will get access to all that, and in time I’ll add a few fun things like video, snippets from my old podcast, and an occasional chance to meet via Zoom.

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