I miss when relationships meant nothing, And in that nothingness, Could mean the world. * The artist, the bureaucrat, the hippy… To each I gave my heart entire, Willy nilly, Blissfully indifferent to the consequences. * As these worlds shattered, And as my heart grew worn, My head entered the picture, Offering diagnoses as to… Continue reading Love as a certain kind of flame
Tag: Wisdom
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
Anxiety as the shrapnel of metamorphosis
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
What Dreams May Come and the acquiescence that is true love
At face value, Richard Matheson’s What Dreams May Come embeds a romantic tale of soul mates at first rent apart, then rejoined. This occurs because one of the souls, Chris, is killed in a car accident and enters the afterlife—a fact which for the principal third of the novel he refuses to believe. Then, Chris’s… Continue reading What Dreams May Come and the acquiescence that is true love
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 