Tag: self-discovery


  • Sanadores_Deprecated.zip

    A few days ago I told a peer in recovery that we should just start a cult. I meant it as a joke. It planted a seed. Sanadores is a free Discord community for everyone in the middle of healing – a place built for the people who keep bumping into each other in waiting…

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  • I_Found_God_v1.zip

    Six or seven years ago, three Bellingham Police Department units pulled into a parking lot behind my Jeep and I didn’t even notice them following me. They didn’t take me to jail. They took me to One Central. That psychiatric hospitalization was a single link in a chain of events that stretches back to the…

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  • You_Werent_Ever_The_Problem_v1.zip

    Awareness isn’t a step on the road to change. It is the entire road. Without it, you’re not on the road at all. You’re just in a field somewhere doing donuts in the dark. From peer support work to IFS parts work to a stormy Tuesday in Bellingham where I’m still processing a decision that…

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  • Its_Not_Manic_BS_v1.zip

    When you change in a way that is real and visible and costs you everything, some people will reach for a clinical word to explain it. Mania. Episode. Red flag. They are not doing it to help you. They are doing it because your transformation makes them uncomfortable, and a diagnosis is cleaner than accountability.…

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  • Bled_For_This_View_v1.zip

    Three days of real peace. Then Thursday happened and my nervous system decided to manufacture a full-blown crisis out of thin air. This is what it looks like when your rational mind is miles ahead and your body is still running trauma drills for a war that is already over. Also: a word to the…

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