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October 2025

The Gift of Chaos: Why ADHD is the Best Thing That Happened to Me
Because once I stopped fighting my brain, it started fighting for me
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If You Don't Have Anything to Pursue, Pursue Yourself
Because everything else is a rented illusion
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How I'm Untraining a Woman Who Was Taught Abuse Was "Love"
This isn't a rescue story--it's a reckoning
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The Price of Dignity
For the men out there who keep selling themselves cheap and calling it "responsibility"
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The "Dead Inside" Generation
How men were brainwashed into believing that feeling nothing is power
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Are You Sabotaging Yourself?
The hardest truth: you can't fix what you've normalised
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The Bad Boy Delusion: How Masculinity Became a Performance for the Powerless
If you keep pretending, the universe will eventually call your bluff
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10 Things You Should Already Know in Your 40s
If you still don't, consider this your wake-up call
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I Once Was Asleep But No More
From validation junkie to disciplined sovereign: how I killed my old self before it killed me
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