01/The Journal

Notes from the practice.

Essays on trauma, OCD, moral injury, and Stoic philosophy. No listicles, no "5 tips for anxiety." Just working thought.

The Wound That Doesn't Have a Category

Moral injury isn't PTSD. It isn't depression. It's a specific wound to your sense of who you are — and the clinical field is still catching up.

The Stoics practiced imagining loss before it happened. Modern exposure therapy does almost the exact same thing. Here's why it works.

Generic talk therapy wasn't built for people whose job was high-consequence, high-speed decision-making. Here's what actually helps.

Mental compulsions are still compulsions. And they respond to ERP — you just have to know where to look for them.

A plain-language explanation of the most researched trauma protocol in existence — and why it doesn't require you to re-tell the story in detail.

Outcomes are not yours. Process is. This distinction is Stoic, it's clinical, and it's the foundation of everything we do in session.

Some losses get funerals. Others get silence. Why the grief nobody else counts deserves the same work — and often more of it.

What Epictetus figured out 1,900 years ago — and why modern Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is, essentially, a re-packaging of it.

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