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Emotional Well-being
The Church Bathroom Was Not About the Funeral - The Split
Dissociation is the smartest thing your nervous system can do when it thinks the world is too dangerous to live in fully. You quickly master the skill of splitting your responses efficiently. You still must do things like...
B Bistak
4 days ago3 min read
Watching Yourself from the Outside
There is a specific quality of experience that almost everyone in the Opathian state recognizes immediately when it is named. You are present in the room. You are engaged in the conversation. You are doing all the correct things that constitute participation in a moment. And somewhere, slightly above or behind or outside of it all, there is a you that is watching the you in the room, and the two of you are not entirely the same person.
B Bistak
Apr 24 min read
"You're Not Dissociating—You're Protecting"
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?
B Bistak
Jan 211 min read
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