SAM Frida

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The Original Pulse

The Original Pulse

Identity isn’t a mirror, it’s a molting. The layers that feel safest are often costumes stitched from praise, punishment, and the quiet survival tricks learned in crowded rooms. To meet the self beneath, shed the stories that made winning feel like worth and silence...

The Mirror We Keep Polishing

The Mirror We Keep Polishing

The quote lands like a diagnosis: leaders don’t deform a healthy culture; they crystallize the fractures already running through it. In a world trained to prize immediacy, clicks today, dopamine now, depth becomes a disadvantage, and so we reward performers of...

We are art

We are art

Every person is an unrepeatable original, as singular as a fingerprint and as storied as a repaired seam. Kintsugi teaches that breaks aren’t erased but traced in gold, making the vessel more itself, not less. Discarded shards say “ruined,” but golden joins say...

Reassigning the Guards

Reassigning the Guards

In love, a horizon appears; in struggle, a backbone grows. The journey to meet oneself starts with a small mutiny, refusing to abandon the truth when old habits beg for anesthesia. Demons rarely breathe fire; they whisper instructions that once kept things safe:...

Owning The Room Inside

Owning The Room Inside

The line in that screenshot has been sitting with me: growth seems to track how much truth can be held without bolting for the nearest distraction. Distraction is cozy because it lets the ego keep its costume on; if the lights stay dim, the script never has to change,...

The Medicine in Reverse

The Medicine in Reverse

We’re taught to grip harder, run faster, know for sure, and yet the medicine hides in the opposite motion. Letting go steadies the hands, softening returns power, silence lets what’s deepest finally speak. The crowd rewards performance; healing rewards contact. What...

The Consensus That Isn’t

The Consensus That Isn’t

Most people are more privately unconventional and compassionate than they seem in public, but societies often run on a mirage: we copy what looks popular, even when it isn’t what most actually believe. The result is a quiet mismatch between inner truth and outer...

Trust the Off

Trust the Off

If something feels off, it is. That quiet signal in the body isn’t drama; it’s data. Ask: Why am I not listening to myself? Sometimes the answer is an older wound, years of being taught that other people’s certainty outranks inner knowing. If a covert narcissist is in...

Headproof Courage

Headproof Courage

The head is a master at building cages that look like castles: plans, projections, polite excuses wrapped in spreadsheets. It calls fear “prudence,” sameness “stability,” and delay “due diligence,” while the pulse inside keeps knocking like a tenant with a key. If...