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Cross-disciplinary podcast conversations and essays that bridge holistic health, critical psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and activism.
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Grief is Subversive, Unlearning is How We Begin (opens the original)
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Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life-force.... It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness. Grief is alive, wild, untam
Are We Happy With All This Tameness? (opens the original)
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Mostly we work hard at taming our emotional environment just as we work hard at taming our aesthetic environment. We already have tamed our physical environment. And are we happy with all this tameness? Are you?—Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and EffronteryAre we happy with all this tameness? We have built a world of our own. A precious, curated, fragile reality that is anything but real. It is holograms, 2D images, emails, AI, taxes, and hierarchies rooted in tenuous belief
The Life List (opens the original)
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When I was 14 years old I made a “life list”. I remember sitting cross-legged on my grandmothers’ thick beige carpeted living room floor with my grandfather’s ultra-slow Dell laptop computer wired into the socket with the dial up cable. I have no idea what inspired me to type a list of everything I wanted to do with my time here on this planet, big or small. I published it in the MySpace blog-like section with my little profile photo in the corner (naturally, taken from above so you could barely
A Psychiatric Crisis is Not Like A Car Accident (opens the original)
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I was honored to be featured in ’s substack article “Can a Psychiatric Crisis Save Your Life? Madness as breakdown and breakthrough” until I got to his conclusion: retrospective accounts of mental health crises “exhibit coherence bias, survivorship bias, and outcome-dependent interpretations.” To Aftab, the idea that symptoms could have some adaptive purpose is, at best, a useful coping strategy, and at worst, a deflection from the reality that sometimes a breakdown is just
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