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The Evolving
Door.

Slow essays on archetype, soul, and the architecture beneath what we call a life. Sometimes a polemic. Sometimes a reckoning. Sometimes a confession. New writing weekly.

A weak conclusion is sometimes the only honest one.

From the writing

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All Writing · Most Recent First
May · 2026
On Archetype

The Architecture Beneath: 64 Archetypes to Describe It All

Sixty-four patterns mapped, in different languages, for five thousand years. What they reveal about the structure of being.

April · 2026
On Regulation

Containment and Accounting

A reckoning with what most people mean when they say "regulation," and what becomes available when the word is replaced with two more accurate ones.

March · 2026
On the World & the Self

The World Is Not at War. You Are.

A piece on the cost of looking, and the discipline of locating in oneself the patterns one is most certain belong only to others.

February · 2026
On Somatic Theory

I'm Not Anti-Polyvagal Theory Because It Doesn't Help. I'm Anti-Polyvagal Theory Because It's Wrong.

Heavy neuroanatomy serving moral and clinical conviction. A reckoning with the model that has shaped a generation of somatic work, and why its foundations no longer hold.

January · 2026
On Polemic

Fuck Regulation

"I profoundly disagree that regulation is required prior to relating." A polemical opening at full volume, sustained through to the self-implication.

January · 2026
On Time

Yesterday WAS the Real New Year. Or Was It Jan 22, or Jan 1, or Literally Whenever-the-Fuck.

A piece on calendars, thresholds, and the question of whose time we are actually keeping.

December · 2025
On Pharmacology & the Body

Unsafe at Any Size: How GLP-1 Medications Are Unleashing Trauma as Your Body Shrinks

What happens to the trauma a body has been holding when the body itself is, in months, taken apart and reassembled smaller.

November · 2025
On Confession

Metabolizing Loss of Those Still Living

"I don't know how to even write this article." The confessional register at its rawest, while remaining structured.

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Conversations · In Other Voices

Podcast appearances, interviews, and conversations where the work has shown up in someone else's room. The audio version of the writing, with the questions someone else thought to ask.

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