35 hours of travel helps determine if your “discipline” is self-respect or self-abandonment in disguise.

A lot of us, especially queer people, were trained to override ourselves and call it maturity.

I’m less interested in that now.

Being gay and a therapist on Substack does not mean turning depleted moment into something neat and useful.

Sometimes honesty is simpler than that.

Sometimes honesty is just:

I’m not going to force what isn’t there.

So this week’s newsletter will be delayed.

Shared truth still counts when it’s this unglamorous.