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Connection vs. Consumption: Recognizing When Relationships Extract Rather Than Nourish Part 2: Love vs. Consumption Series
A Note on Process: This piece emerged from a long conversation—with myself, really, though AI served as a reflective partner in the process. I started with raw, stream-of-consciousness writing trying to understand my own patterns around connection and consumption. The AI helped me see the structure in what I was already saying, asked questions that Continue reading
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When the Tool Becomes a Crutch: AI, Agency, and Doing Your Own Thinking
I’ve discovered something troubling: there’s a line between AI helping me organize my thoughts and AI doing my thinking for me. And that line matters. Continue reading
agency, ai, AI ethics, AI limitations, Anthropic, artificial intelligence, autonomy, Boundaries, chatgpt, Claude, cognitive health, creative process, critical thinking, decision making, discernment, echo chamber, healing, Human Connection, IFS, Internal Family Systems, mental health, peer support, personal growth, professional help, psychological wellbeing, religious trauma, responsible AI use, self-awareness, self-led living, spiritual manipulation, technology, therapy, trauma recovery, trauma-informed, writing, writing process -
Walking in Shadows: A Journey from Darkness to Light
The toxic faith I grew up with convinced me that looking inward was dangerous—that if I dug beneath the surface, I’d discover nothing but the rot of an irredeemably sinful heart. But what happens when someone already drowning in that internal darkness looks outward and sees nothing but more of the same? When it finally… Continue reading
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A Liminal Space 