The Invisible Break
Patrick ODMost of what we call personality is protective behavior. I spent fifty years living inside that mechanism before I could see it. This is where I work it out in public.
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The Mechanism Behind Protective Behavior
We label human behavior to make sense of it. When someone constantly seeks reassurance in a relationship, we call it "daddy issues." When someone retreats into rigid control, we call it "toxic." These labels provide a superficial judgment f...
The Life of a Loser
At forty-nine, I was working at a distribution center in Almelo, stacking cardboard boxes while forklifts moved through the aisles with a low, steady hum, and every day looked exactly like the one before it.
Married and divorced. Built a b...
You Don't Need Closure.
Let me be clear about something before we go any further.
No one has the right to emotionally or physically abuse another person. No context makes it acceptable. No backstory makes it excusable. If someone is hurting you, you are allowed t...
Who Here Is Toxic?
Few words have grown as fast in recent years as “toxic.” It is everywhere. In relationship podcasts, in TikTok videos about narcissism, in comment sections beneath news articles, in conversations at kitchen tables. Toxic relationships. Toxi...
The Invisible Break is live
Yesterday I launched a Kickstarter campaign for The Invisible Break.
If you’ve been following this project here on Substack, you already know what this book is about. You’ve read the chapters. Some of you have read the full manuscript.
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Behavior is not identity. It is output. I spent fifty years living inside that mechanism before I could see it. Now I am building a framework around it.
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