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Moving Atoms Thoughts Creative Parentheses Saturday, December 11, 2021 Hosting yourself with generous authority Spoiler alert: In the third season of the British TV show Downtown Abbey, the charming blue-eyed husband of the protagonist, Mary Crawley, dies in a sudden car crash. Mary goes into shock. She retreats into herself, barely paying any attention to her newborn son and slinking away from all responsibilities. After 6 months (or, well, 15 mins in TV-time), her family gives her a wake up call. It is time to move forward, they say. You must make a choice. Choose death, as you have been, or choose life. This cold-water treatment knocks Mary out of her stupor, and she begins to take on responsibilities and a role in the world again. The harsh but deeply loving suggestion to dispel grief with obligations struck me. I (and many of my friends) struggle with the freedom-obligation conflict. Obligations are all the things we know we should do. Work hard. Exercise. Go to that networking

Moving Atoms: Thoughts Parentheses Thoughts Creative Parentheses Sunday, February 25, 2024 An Algorithm for Psychological Healing I wrote this piece 6 months ago, before I went to a month-long retreat in the forest focused on intense emotional healing. The retreat spun me around and threw me on my head – it took a long time to digest and integrate to the point where I could come back to this post. Delightfully, I've realized that while I have a richer conception of trauma, emotional processing, and how to heal now, the building blocks are still very similar. So, here's my already-outdate

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