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Therapist. Exploring myth, madness, meaning, and how our greatest wounds can become our greatest gifts.

Newsletter · By Brian Maierhofer · English · Paid tier available · Official site

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Sep 15, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 15, 2026

    Like a Bar of Wet Soap (opens the original)

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    "You can hold it like a bar of wet soap, hands open. The second you try to grab it and squeeze, it shoots right out of you."That's Nick Makiej on what it feels like to get close to something holy. He’s right, and this conversation could not have come at a better time.I've been at a spiritual crossroads. After years circling the Bible through Jung and Campbell, reading scripture through the lens of individuation, and treating it as psychology, I finally walked into my first liturgy. Most sermons

  2. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    You Cannot Think Your Way Out of What the Body Learned (opens the original)

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    Fourteen years ago, I sat on a stone wall with a therapist named Kelly. I don’t remember a single thing that was said. I just remember what it felt like being around her. She didn’t try to fix me, explain away the pain, or make excuses for my self-loathing. She sat with me, and she stayed. I remember her staying.It took me fourteen years to understand why her presence was so healing, and why its absence is the very thing bringing people into my office for treatment.All of our wounds are relation

  3. Issue · Sep 5, 2026

    Your Partner Is Having a Different Conversation (opens the original)

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    “It's always about the dishes, but it's never about the dishes.” Underneath the logistics sits a very real question: Do you see me? Do I matter? Are you glad I was born?In this conversation, I sat down with Minnie Goode, LMFT and certified Imago Relationship Therapist. We get into why your partner’s version of the same event is guaranteed to be different from yours, why arguing for the accuracy of your own memory keeps you stuck, and what shifts when you stop trying to win an argument and start

  4. Issue · Sep 1, 2026

    Rhythm Before Narrative: Why modern attempts at healing trauma are backwards (opens the original)

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    Trauma therapy fails because we try to rewrite a story before fixing a clock. Metabolic psychology proves that the body’s autonomic and circadian loops dictate whether you feel connected to your Self or whether you feel like you’re falling apart. Not only do those loops keep time, but they build the internal space you occupy.Fix the biology first, then allow the narrative to self-correct.Rhythm Before NarrativeI’ve been working at detoxes, rehabs, and sober livings in Los Angeles for over seven

  5. Issue · Aug 13, 2026

    the best kept nervous system secret: open-focus training (opens the original)

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    Over the last two years my health and clarity of purpose have come from two main practices.TRE, which I’ve written about extensivelyOpen-Focus Training, which will be the topic of this post.People often ask, why the two together? Let me start there, because they’re deeply connected.Your nervous system has two basic postures and you know them both from the inside.Under fight-or-flight, our attention narrows onto the singular threat or stressor(s) in front of us. Our awareness of possibilities wit

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