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Ushering in the new Self—the boring part

Ushering in the new Self—the boring part

We gotta talk strategy first

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Jul 01, 2024
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So you’ve got a fully functional horcrux and no idea what to do with it. Don’t worry, I knew this would happen. Rewiring your brain to crave ritual and communion with Spirit, rebuilding the skill of symbolic relation with reality, takes work and a lot of experimentation.

See, before you can create your character, you gotta know what it’s going to take to sustain that shit. Because it’s not enough to just create a super cool alter ego and pretend to be them while doing fun and scary and totally boundary-breaking things. What happens when old parts of Self come in, absolutely QUAKING at all of the totally-not-comfort-zone-approved new STUFF you’re trying to do, and remind you where you came from and where your loyalties lie???

Like, bestie, what are you gonna DO??????

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