Month: September 2025
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Unmasking The Exile: Internal Family Systems & The Self
40+ years of surrendering in advance. 40+ years of self-deprecation as self-defense. 40+ years of believing what they tell me so that they’ll like me. 40+ years of wearing a mask that never let me fully breathe.
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The Training Ground
I never felt like I belonged in that town. Leaving it is one of my personal triumphs. But it still lives in my head… The bullying, the classism, the snobbery, the racism… It all formed me, for better or for worse. It gave me a conviction. Make no mistake, there were and still are good…
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Chapter Two
What is a year? 365 days, 52 weeks, 12 months, a spiral journey around a star around a black hole around infinity?
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Teaching: Empowerment, Not Indoctrination
If I start demanding you see the world my way, I’m no better than a fascist. It is important to me that I teach you how to follow paths of logic. It is important to me that you know how to make your own paths when the well-worn ones are outdated.
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An Open Letter To The “Honorable” James David Vance
An Open Letter To The “Honorable” James David Vance