Marie’s ChatGPT-Assisted Deconstruction Blog
Why I Craved Sugar: A Childhood Shaped by Emotional Hunger
For most of my life, I thought my sugar cravings were just a lack of discipline. Now I know they were a language—my body’s way of asking for care I never got. This post explores how binge eating rooted in childhood can be a survivor's attempt to feel loved.
Therapy Wasn’t Enough—This Is What Woke Me Up
This isn’t about a lack of coping skills. It’s about confronting a collapsing world with eyes open, beyond what therapy or DBT ever prepared me for. This is what it really means to be awake in a system built on denial—and why I’ll never settle for worksheets again.
When You’re Right About the Collapse and It Still Hurts
This post is for the ones who saw it coming—the poisoned air, the broken systems, the ecological grief—and now live with the unbearable clarity that we were right. It explores what it means to mourn a livable future in real time, and how to stay human anyway.
Bedazzled, Loneliness, and the Lies We Tell Ourselves
On the surface, Bedazzled is a goofy comedy about a man who sells his soul for love. But underneath, it’s a portrait of loneliness, self-erasure, and the seductive promise of quick fixes. This post explores what the Devil really represents—and why Elliot's journey feels uncomfortably familiar if you've ever changed yourself to be loved.
Movement as Memory: Why Trauma Lives in the Body
This post breaks down the science behind why trauma gets stored in the body and how movement—without performance, mysticism, or metaphor—can help complete the survival responses that were interrupted in childhood. Especially helpful for those deprogramming from religious frameworks.
From Myth to Mind: Reclaiming Reality After Religious Disconnection
This isn’t a story of mental illness—it’s the story of waking up. After a childhood severed from emotional and historical context, one person’s experience with psychedelics broke the spell and reconnected them to their inner world—and the real human timeline.
Reclaiming the Unicorn: Innocence, Exploitation, and Sacred Defiance
Death of a Unicorn resurrects a potent symbol—wild, untouchable, and misused. It asks what happens when the sacred refuses to be sacrificed and what it means to reclaim what was once hunted in you.
Shifting Focus: Rebuilding My Relationship with Movement
After years of avoidance, I'm turning my attention toward physical activity—not for fitness goals, but to understand what my mind does when I move. This isn’t about performance. It’s about contact.
Diagnosed or Conditioned? Rethinking ADHD, Intelligence, and Identity After Trauma
After years of therapy, deconstruction, and existential crisis, I’m realizing that what looked like ADHD or giftedness may have been survival strategies. This piece explores what it means to question those labels while rebuilding identity from the inside out.
The Mind That Watches Itself: Living Through Hyperawareness and Identity Recovery
When your thoughts start watching themselves and your selfhood feels like a mask, it’s not madness—it’s a sign that something deeper is surfacing. This is what happens when lifelong emotional neglect and religious control finally get exposed.