A Life Organized Around Feeling Better
When feeling good becomes a requirement for living well, life can slowly become organized around avoiding discomfort. What becomes possible when we let feelings inform participation rather than control it?
When feeling good becomes a requirement for living well, life can slowly become organized around avoiding discomfort. What becomes possible when we let feelings inform participation rather than control it?
From the moment you arrived, you were already in a process you had no say in whether you wanted to be part of. You didn’t choose your name. You didn’t choose your family history. You had no vote in the infinitesimal variables that set your life in motion,
The title has always unsettled people. Yet it's also relatable. How to Feel Nothing might sound like an instruction manual for detachment. It might sound like I'm suggesting avoidance as a strategy to disappear from your own life. That reaction makes sense. We live in a
Many people who find their way to psychedelic therapy or deep psychological work are looking for something more. They’ve had insight. Sometimes life-rearranging insight. They can name their patterns. They understand their trauma. Many understand the nervous system well enough to explain it to someone else. And yet,