The Last Symptom, LLC

A lot of people have been told that rumination is the enemy. That if you're turning something over in your mind, you're being unhealthy. That the answer is to stop thinking about it and move on. That advice is backwards. Rumination is a healthy aspect of life. Emotional health requires it. You chew on a thought the way a cow chews its cud, not to torture yourself, but to draw in...

One tremendously beneficial result of my authentic recovery was gaining the enlightenment that almost nothing in life is black or white. Almost everything you can imagine is relative, or subjective. Even the laws of the universe work this way. Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, and yet the very fabric of space itself is expanding faster than light, carrying entir...

No matter how often you chant "I am worthy, I am worthy..." this is simply you lying to yourself, in a sense, because you are telling yourself, over and over again, something you simply don't believe, deep down. If I asked you to jump off the roof of your house because you will float gingerly down to the ground, you would not believe me, no matter how convincing I am. Your direc...