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Whiteness as Wound: Grieving the Legacy of Severance

What if white supremacy isn’t just ideology—but inherited trauma? This post explores the idea that white patriarchy may be a survival strategy rooted in ancestral disconnection. The grief you’re feeling isn’t personal failure—it’s the rupture of lineage beginning to repair.

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What It Means to Choose Awareness

Most people live inside their thoughts, never realizing there’s a deeper stance available. This post explores the nature of awareness as a perceptual shift—not a belief, not a spiritual idea, but a structural function of the mind—and what changes when you start noticing from the inside.

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When You Stop Searching and Start Building

You're not lost. You're stable, capable, and awake—finally asking the real question: What now? This post explores the moment when you're no longer chasing healing, but instead ready to claim authorship of your own reality and voice.

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Beyond the Self-Help Stage: When You Stop Outsourcing Your Insight

Watts, Tolle, Brené, Oprah—at some point their words felt like a lifeline. But what happens when your lived experience outgrows their polished frameworks? This post names the moment when spiritual and emotional insight stops coming from books and starts coming from your own clarity.

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Presence Isn’t the Absence of Thought

You’ve spent years trying to eliminate your thoughts in order to feel “present,” not realizing that presence was never the absence of thought—but the space that holds it all. This post explores the exhausting trap of internal self-policing and what it means to finally stop duck hunting your own mind.

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When the Coping Stops Working

You used to be able to check out—TV, food, autopilot. But now, even those fail to distract you. This post explores the disorienting middle space where old tools don’t soothe anymore, but nothing new has taken their place.

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The Muscle That Won’t Let You Drown

When survival becomes mechanical and the mind offers no rest, how do you sit with your own refusal to sink—without glorifying the struggle or pathologizing the confusion? This piece unpacks what it means to be caught between relentless effort and the wish to stop trying.

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What If Nothing in Your Mind Is Broken?

Raised to believe your thoughts were either divine or demonic, how do you reclaim your mind as your own? This post unpacks the raw confusion of rediscovering internal perception after religious programming—and offers a grounded, bullshit-free alternative to parts work.

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The Illusion of Safety Through Weight Loss

This post explores the deeper belief behind body image struggles: that being thinner means being safer. But safety isn’t a number on a scale—it’s a story about control, trust, and emotional survival. What happens when you stop punishing your body and start listening to it?

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