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Deconditioning Everything I Was
Rock bottom was my altar. A broken spine became my teacher. In the ashes of exhaustion, I found ignition. This is the story of how I stopped trying to heal into safety and started living into power: how the man who once begged not to wake up learned to walk, dance, build and burn again. It’s not about crawling out of the cave; it’s about launching from…
traumafamilyembodimentidentity after traumacreative couragemeaning-making through myth
Mode autobiographical testimonyMotifs ashes and burning · cave
Eye of the Mountain