- How I Learned to Blame Myself for Everything
- The Hole I Fell Into Denying It Existed
- The Prison You Built While Trying to Escape Yourself
How I Learned to Blame Myself for Everything
I didn’t grow up being told I was a sinner in so many words. It was more subtle than that — woven into sermons, Sunday school lessons, the way adults talked about suffering as if it always had a reason. Someone got sick, and there was a quiet conversation about what they might have done…
The Hole I Fell Into Denying It Existed
I have told so many lies in my life that I have lost any real claim to knowing which parts of myself were built and which parts simply grew. This is, as far as I can tell, the central problem of my life, and possibly the central problem of most lives, though most people are…
The Prison You Built While Trying to Escape Yourself
Every avoidance starts with a simple, human instinct: something hurts, so we look for a way to make it stop. A drink to quiet the noise. A scroll to numb the boredom. A withdrawal to avoid the conflict. None of it looks dangerous in the moment. It just looks like relief. But relief that never…
