I’m Piperlyne
The creator of
Authorship of the Soul Sovereign
There is a kind of knowing that cannot be taught in a classroom or handed over in a certification. It must be experienced, built in the fire, through the losses that don’t make sense, the structures that collapse without warning, the moments when everything you believed about your life turns out to be a story you were given, not one you authored. And while I have well over a thousand hours of education in life coaching, hypnotherapy, meditation, and yoga, and over twenty years working with hundreds of clients and thousands of students, that is not all of what makes me qualified to do this work. I know being built in the fire, the loss, the collapse. I was built in there. Not once, but many times, beginning in my childhood.
What carried me through was not resilience in the way that word is usually used, as a kind of toughness or a refusal to break. It has been something quieter and more demanding than that. It began with a meditation practice I started as a child. It built into a relentless need to question everything I thought I knew about myself and the world, and to keep going anyway. It is a complete refusal to let my shattering be the final word. That practice became a life’s work, then a methodology, and eventually a philosophy with its own internal architecture, but underneath all of it, the thing that has actually held is simpler. I am a person who refuses to live a life I did not author. I always have been. It just took me a long time to know that about myself.
I am also a mother. I buried one son and have spent every day since raising his twin, a boy of extraordinary light, stubborn curiosity, and a will to keep learning that humbles me regularly. Nolan’s disabilities have meant years of fighting doctors, systems, institutions, and an unending lack of sleep, along with something even more demanding than fighting – surrendering to what I cannot control while refusing to abandon what I know is right. Eli’s absence and Nolan’s presence have taught me things about how grief and love co-exist and deepen the meaning of life in ways no methodology could contain. They are not a chapter in my story. They are the gravity my life revolves around.
I am a person who reads the charts of the sky as seriously as I read philosophy, and who reads philosophy as seriously as I listen to a piece of music, or watch a flower open, or live my own life. I find wisdom in books and in laughter, in art and in nature, in the things people say and the things they refuse to say. I think all of it is sacred. I am drawn to moody light, deep contrast, and the way the sun breaks through clouds in streams after a storm. I trust pain as feedback. I distrust certainty that has not been earned. I think the cosmos has an ordering principle and I think you are not separate from it. I think your life is meant to be authored, not received.
My life is the living, breathing embodiment of a self that was built and built again in ashes and pain
And I am still building, still authoring, still loving.
Piperlyne - Authorship of the Soul Sovereign 