Marie’s ChatGPT-Assisted Deconstruction Blog
Why “Do the Work” Doesn’t Work
This post breaks down the frustration behind the phrase “do the work” and offers clearer, more honest alternatives for those navigating healing, justice, and identity deconstruction. If you've ever felt pressured to perform your progress while privately unraveling, you're not alone.
When the World Starts to Feel Real: Grief, Gaza, and Growing Up Under Denial
This is a raw, unfiltered reckoning with reality—from watching a child speak out about Gaza, to facing the emotional wreckage of white Christian programming. It tracks what happens when denial collapses and you begin to feel the full weight of global pain, personal trauma, and the disorienting process of waking up.
Understanding Collapse: What It Means When Systems and Selves Break Down
“Collapse” is showing up everywhere—from social media to personal mental health conversations—but what does it actually mean? This post unpacks both the external unraveling of societal systems and the internal collapse of identity, belief, and emotional scaffolding.
The Grief Beneath Whiteness: Repairing the Lineage of Severance
Whiteness is not just dominance—it’s disconnection. This piece unpacks whiteness as cultural trauma, exploring how emotional numbness, mythic loss, and ancestral amnesia shape white identity. The grief you’re feeling isn't confusion—it's history breaking through.
Whiteness as Wound: Grieving the Legacy of Severance
What if white supremacy isn’t just ideology—but inherited trauma? This post explores the idea that white patriarchy may be a survival strategy rooted in ancestral disconnection. The grief you’re feeling isn’t personal failure—it’s the rupture of lineage beginning to repair.
What It Means to Choose Awareness
Most people live inside their thoughts, never realizing there’s a deeper stance available. This post explores the nature of awareness as a perceptual shift—not a belief, not a spiritual idea, but a structural function of the mind—and what changes when you start noticing from the inside.
When You Stop Searching and Start Building
You're not lost. You're stable, capable, and awake—finally asking the real question: What now? This post explores the moment when you're no longer chasing healing, but instead ready to claim authorship of your own reality and voice.
Beyond the Self-Help Stage: When You Stop Outsourcing Your Insight
Watts, Tolle, Brené, Oprah—at some point their words felt like a lifeline. But what happens when your lived experience outgrows their polished frameworks? This post names the moment when spiritual and emotional insight stops coming from books and starts coming from your own clarity.
Presence Isn’t the Absence of Thought
You’ve spent years trying to eliminate your thoughts in order to feel “present,” not realizing that presence was never the absence of thought—but the space that holds it all. This post explores the exhausting trap of internal self-policing and what it means to finally stop duck hunting your own mind.
When the Coping Stops Working
You used to be able to check out—TV, food, autopilot. But now, even those fail to distract you. This post explores the disorienting middle space where old tools don’t soothe anymore, but nothing new has taken their place.