SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

When Your Inner Volcano Finally Gets Clearance to Erupt

Or: Why Your Body Just Requisitioned a Demolition Permit and Your Nervous System Is Asking If You've Updated Your Will

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Dea Devidas
Sep 24, 2025
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Your fascia has been holding a referendum on your entire existence for approximately seventeen years, and the results just came in: unanimous vote for structural overhaul. The demolition crew didn’t send a courtesy email. They showed up with dynamite and a playlist of songs you used to cry to in 2019.

Your bones already know what’s coming. They’ve been rehearsing this uprising in your sleep, practicing the architecture of someone who no longer apologizes for taking up space.

You know that voice in your head that’s been whispering “this isn’t working” since roughly the second Obama administration? Well, it just requisitioned a megaphone, a construction permit, and a very detailed PowerPoint presentation about everything you’ve been pretending is fine. Spoiler: it’s not fine. Your vagus nerve has the receipts.

We’re talking about a period of your suppressed power going full Mount Vesuvius on everything fake in your life. Your protective mechanisms? They’re like wearing emotional Kevlar whi


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