HeyJaredThe Unclenching Project
Essays on survival, systems, and becoming whole without asking permission; a place where survival isn’t clean, and becoming isn’t quiet.
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📖 A Sportsman’s Paradise (opens the original)
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This is Chapter 4 of my narrative memoir, Yet Another Survivors Story. Chapter 1: InheritedChapter 2: She Was Not the Story They Told MeChapter 3: From Muskrats to Mudbugs Note: This book has a suggested SOUNDTRACK FOR SURVIVAL on Spotify<span
I Wasn’t Fighting With My Brother. I Was Fighting for Him. (opens the original)
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I thought I was angry.I thought every argument with my brother was about politics. About LGBTQ rights. About religion. About elections. About whether the people he supported were hurting people like me.I thought I kept coming back because I needed him to understand that I was right.Today I realized I kept coming back because I didn’t want to lose my brother.There is a difference.Every argument contained a tiny bit of hope.Maybe if I show him this bill.Maybe if I explain what this policy actually
When the Threat Is Real: Watching Mass Detention With Complex PTSD (opens the original)
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There is a peculiar problem with having complex PTSD: sometimes your nervous system is wrong.And sometimes it isn’t.After being gaslit for years by a father who produced child sexual abuse material and rewriting my history, I have spent years learning to question my alarm system.Is this person actually rejecting me, or does it just feel like rejection?Am I unsafe, or does my body remember being unsafe?Is this situation really dangerous, or has something in the present brushed against something o
Because I Could Not Stop for Death (opens the original)
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When I was twenty years old, I took a poetry and poetics class.One of the papers I wrote was about Emily Dickinson’s Because I could not stop for Death.I loved that poem.I still do.At twenty, I could have told you about Dickinson’s personification of Death. I could have written about the carriage, the passing schoolchildren, the setting sun. I could have analyzed the strange gentleness with which she imagined the end of a life.What I couldn’t have explained was why I found it so comforting.I thi
Becoming Real (opens the original)
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For a while now, I’ve been quietly building something.And this week, it crossed a line that feels both thrilling and slightly terrifying:Beyond the Spiral is officially in development.I signed the contract. The developers have started building.This is real now.Why I wanted this to existBeyond the Spiral grew out of something I know intimately: the space between therapy sessions.I’ve spent years in therapy. DBT. IFS. EMDR. CBT. TMS. Neurofeedback. I have learned an almost ridiculous number of acr
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