Creative Destruction: How to Build Your Phoenix Self from the Ashes of Who You Used to Be

(aka: when your nervous system evicts your former self... without so much as a 30-day notice)

You know that moment when your entire personality starts feeling like a website you built in 2014 that still has a “Subscribe to our Newsletter” popup and a stock photo of businesspeople high-fiving? Where logging into your own life requires a password you’ve definitely forgotten and the “Forgot Password” link redirects to your mother’s expectations?

This, my magnificent mess, is what happens when the identity your nervous system built for survival stops being sustainable. Not because the universe decided you need a lesson. But because your body can no longer metabolize the lie.

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This essay grew up and moved out. It lives in Under the Healing now.

The full text is in print. A book with a spine, a cover, and a body that holds the whole thing.

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