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The Russian doll schema that is inner child work

In inner child work, the therapeutic subject visits and comforts earlier versions of themselves at unique and pivotal stress points. At each of these points, the subject gives to their earlier self the care and understanding they did not receive at the time, a process which gradually quells latent feelings such as anxiety, anger, confusion,… Continue reading The Russian doll schema that is inner child work

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My content-producing seatmate

Note: this is not the guy, just a stock image approximation My seatmate on a five-hour flight home from Hawaii was perhaps the most extreme person I have ever met: a porn producer covered head to toe in tattoos and with a serious addiction to drugs. Yes, you read that correctly. As the influx of… Continue reading My content-producing seatmate

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The short, miserable life of an empath

By the time she reached middle school, the empath had learned of the horrors visited upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of WWII–hence, she developed radiation poisoning, even though both geography and temporality vastly distanced her from those places. Too, she had learned of Fritz Haber, Zyklon B, WWI’s trenches, and the burnings of… Continue reading The short, miserable life of an empath