Cracked Open
David B Younger, When Pain WritesEssays on disability, psychology, love, shame, grief, and the ongoing practice of meeting life as it is.
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Watching the Shadows on the Wall
“It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Platon Cave Sanraedam, Jan Saenredam, 1604
I walked with my rollator some twenty feet, from the chair in my bedroom to the chair in my office, and I felt e...
Why I Can No Longer Remember What Walking Felt Like
Layers, digital painting by Judith Alalu, 2024
There are so many things I used to be able to do and can’t anymore like walking unassisted, running, playing tennis, playing classical guitar, which I practiced every day into my late twenties...
The River Beneath My Anxiety
With the Sea, digital painting by Judith Alalu, 2026
For most of my life I didn’t think of myself as anxious. I was neurotic in my twenties, a caricature of myself, obsessing over things, afraid of flying, anxious in a room full of people....
Letting Go Isn't Something You Achieve
Hope in the Darkness, digital painting by Judith Alalu, 2023
I have been struggling a lot of late with the feeling that I can never just let go and relax.
Thinking about what it would feel like to let go is like imagining what it would fe...
The Monster Shame Creates
The following piece is a collaboration with Justina, a philosophy doctoral candidate whose writing explores disability, discrimination, and belonging. Together, we reflect on shame from our different perspectives and experiences, looking at...
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I’m a husband, father, psychologist, collector of losses, reluctant expert in muscular dystrophy, and recovering neurotic. I write about disability, shame, anxiety, and the ongoing process of becoming more at home in a life and body I didn’t choose.
Substack When Pain Writes. Drawing on literature, philosophy, and personal experience, this Substack explores what cannot be easily narrated.
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