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Bert.Hard-Won Wisdom from Not-Fun Places.
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The Disco Ball Has a Thousand Mirrors (And You Know Six)
Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash
Here’s the thing nobody tells you: most of what feels automatic isn’t.
Something happens.
It doesn’t match what you expected.
And boom! Feeling, reaction, outcome, done.
Half the time you did...
The Weather Up There. Reading Your Own Forecast.
“Get the fuck out of your head, man.”
I love that.
I really do.
Because I have lived in my head for 98.something% of my life.
Early in life I didn’t know there was anywhere else to live, any other way of being in the world.
It too...
Patterns and Ripples
I’ve been catching myself lately.
Not after.
Not during the damage.
Right before.
That split second where the thing is about to happen and I can feel it coming.
I’ve written before; that gap, between trigger and response, is eve...
Dysregulated. WTF does that even mean?
You are the antenna. Feeling the signals like it or not.
My nervous system was dysregulated my entire life.
Every conscious hour, for as long as I can remember.
I know because I discovered what the opposite of dysregulation feels like....
Liminal Spaces: Two Years and Eleven Months.
Matilda supercharging in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2023.
There’s a word for the place I lived for two years and eleven months.
Liminal.
It means threshold.
The space between what was and what’s next.
Not before. Not the after.
The gap,...
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I've lived long enough to know how dark it gets—and that you're not alone. I write about depression, homelessness, losing everything, and the small things that bring you back. If you've been in dark places, I'm right here.
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