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A framework for high-functioning distress

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Too functional for clinical care.
Underserved by everything else.
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↳ The workThe through-line everything serves
Trust in your own capacity to recover and reconstruct.
When that trust goes offline, everything else is the system adapting.
01
The Problem
Languishing
02
The Mechanism
The armor that works too well
03
The Gap
Insight isn't enough
04
The Work
Reconstruction
Reconstruction runs in sequence  —  Safety · Noticing · Felt Sense · Accommodation · Change
The body is the door
"I always thought of myself as being in the way of the work."

Every time the body was supposed to be the reason I couldn't, it turned out to be the reason I could. The training isn't a side project — it's the visible version of the invisible thesis, recovery practiced where you can watch it happen.

1987 · the operating table  →  the stage · performing anyway  →  now · the rebuild, in public
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