Successful psychiatric or psychological therapies typically lead to remission and effective coping strategies rather than a complete cure. This type of therapy is vulnerable to becoming a loop: something’s wrong with you, we’re not quite sure what it is, but we’ll keep looking—and billing.

They missed that you can't ‘discharge’ or ‘release’ what was never a single event. Shaking. Tremoring. Completing the interrupted fight-or-flight sequence. These tools assume a charge that built up and needs release. A tiger you couldn't escape. An accident you couldn't process. But how do you shake off twenty years of sucking in your stomach? How... See more

When we treat emotions like pathologies, we pave the way for exploitation. Now, normal states of being are problems that need to be eradicated. You need more therapy, more plant medicine, more retreats, more cleanses. Everything in your life becomes a diagnoses. But not all of our exes can be sociopaths, not all of our mothers can be have... See more