A paradigm is a perspective – a set of ideas, a pattern of something – it’s a way of looking at things.

A wormhole in physics is a connection between separate areas of spacetime; a theory at this point.

So what is a paradigm wormhole, exactly?

Back in 2015, I was driving back to my apartment in Chicago from my hometown in Indiana. About a 3-hour drive through fields and wind turbines. During that drive, I felt an overwhelming sense of relief and comfort as I came over the bridge on the Skyway and the city burst into view.

I thought about my feelings as a result of traveling between different paradigms – who I was in my hometown (then and there) and who I was in that moment (here and now). In these cases, travel is through what I call a paradigm wormhole because hometown life is so much different than my own. Who I am away from the past, while temporarily time traveling.

Perhaps others feel this way when they travel home for holidays, or caring for family members. A paradigm wormhole could be and mean many different things. I coined this phrase in 2015 to represent the emotional journey and the “blur” of being in between those two personality states.