Mental Healing

The OPATHIAN state is not numbness. People in this state are painfully aware of what they lack: emotional depth, joy, and connection. It is the feeling that others naturally experience these things while you watch from a distance you cannot close.

THE GATE SHOWS YOU HOW TO DEPART PREMATURELY. There's a specific kind of broken thing in your life. It's not the type of breakage that occurs abruptly. It's the kind that deteriorates gradually, over a period of years, in ways that appear normal until they don't. For Billy—whose story has haunted me for years—it was a fence. A backyard gate split open by a winter storm when he was eight years old. The gate remained broken in Billy's mind. And in that brokenness, something sh

You know that feeling when you're watching yourself from outside your body? When you're in a conversation, or at work, or even with someone you love, and you're observing yourself instead of living?