Marie’s Blog
(fka ChatGPT-Assisted Deconstruction)
Existential Physical Therapy
A conversation about relearning how to inhabit a body, a mind, and desire after long-term vigilance, religious conditioning, and self-surveillance.
Self-Presence Without Surveillance
A conversation about what it means to experience yourself without monitoring, why it can feel disorienting or illicit, and how trauma-trained self-surveillance loosens without collapse.
Desire Without Shrines: Learning to Want Without Self-Erasure
A conversation about how wanting got wired to shame, distance, and fantasy—and how to keep desire in the body without turning it into obligation or humiliation.
Reading My Own Writing Without Dissociation
I worried the pages I wrote while high wouldn’t make sense. What scared me wasn’t incoherence—it was recognizing my own clarity without the usual self-policing.
Is Humanity Monogamous? Biology, Bonding, and the Myth of “The One”
A clear look at what human biology, anthropology, and culture actually say about monogamy, romance, and pair-bonding—without the movie myths.
From Anger to Systems Thinking: Letting Go of the Need for Villains
A conversation about moving beyond rage as a primary lens for understanding patriarchy, abuse, and power—and what changes when you start seeing harm as something produced by systems rather than monsters.
Running Toward My Body Again
A conversation about movement returning after trauma, binge cycles, pain, and winter—without turning exercise back into punishment.
Hearing the Animal Under Language
A conversation about how emotion lives beneath words, why tone carries meaning across species, and what happens when humans relearn how to trust perception instead of narrative.
Human Emotions Aren’t That Complicated — We Just Buried Them in Stories
A conversation about how human emotional life is biologically simple, and how language, culture, religion, and identity narratives turned basic nervous-system states into something needlessly confusing.
Old Violence, Modern Distance: Where Human Aggression Went
A conversation about hunter-gatherer violence, how aggression didn’t disappear but was outsourced, sanitized, and hidden inside modern systems.