Category: Relationships
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Introduction Examine the seasons of your life. Start with the one you’re in, and stop farming against the weather. The inference is this: Find a posteriori justifications for living authentically, in accordance with your true nature, as a rejection of hypothetical potential. The constant tension catalyzed by status anxiety in the drive for “success” and…
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A profound exploration of the intersection between Sartrean Existentialism, the psychology of aging, and the specific phenomenon of status anxiety. Introduction In terms of hodological space, viewed from a Sartrean perspective, some older adults, wrapped in the warmth of counterfeit emotions, fear being authentic. Why? Because something inside them says, “If I’m authentic, then I…
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This Mentorship Manifesto is a powerful instrument for securing your new legacy- and relationship-building identity. Putting it in writing externalizes the shift from having to “prove” to the freedom and willingness to “share”; from ego to legacy. Essentially, the Mentorship Manifesto turns your “seismograph” into a compass: reading the tectonic shifts in your own identity…
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IntroductionEmotional ParentificationThe Path to RuinDon’t Call Me Unless…Ride or Flight?Generosity & RuinThe Slippery Slope RealizedThe Discipline to ClimbConclusion & Lessons LearnedAdditional Reading Introduction Is my life a cliff or a plain? Currently, I am not sure. I am certain it was once a cliff. I climbed intrepidly, relentlessly, until I finally reached the top—my destination.…
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IntroductionThe Incarcerated SlaveOf Course, Childhood TraumaManifest Parentification as an AdultThe Incarcerated Slave RevisitedEmpathic Depletion & Compassion FatigueConclusion & Lessons Learned Introduction I was in, no. I stayed in a fifteen-year “relationship”; one that should have ended within months. But what can I say, die Eule der Minerva fliegt. The relationship officially came to an end…