Therapy Session (Part 1): Reclaiming Wonder

Let's talk about coming back from that deep, dark place. System Overload. Entering Deep Rest Mode At this point, nobody should blame you if you start a revolution or disappear into your quiet shell.Who doesn’t want that job, who doesn’t want to see their family happy, who doesn’t want to move from this stage of life to the next? But like every other person’s story, except the few lucky ones who’ve somehow skipped resistance, reality isn’t changing anytime soon. Living paycheque to paycheque.Application got denied again.A Relative just bit the dust.“God, when will this cycle end?” They ask,“I’ll cry,” Mary says to herself.“I’ll lash out,” Zeke mutters.“I’ll show the world I’ve rejected them by growing cold and distant,” even someone starving halfway across the planet whispers the same prayer, respectively. Here comes deep rest, or depression, if we’re calling it by its name. The system fills up with desire and disappointment; the yang outstrips the yin. We live our lives as adults expecting the next disappointment and call it maturity. But it’s not maturity. It’s Damage with a job title. Leaning into Your Delusions Enough’s been said about all this, too much, maybe. The world grew too fast, too loud, too clever for its own good, and we stopped listening. Then we relapsed.If wonder died, it didn’t leave on a whim. It just stopped looking. Think back to when you were a kid. You believed you could cry the world into submission, and sometimes, it worked. You were a tiny tyrant of emotion, a strategist with nothing but instinct. Children are delusional, but that delusion keeps them alive. They don’t rationalize hunger, or exhaustion, or wanting more, they demand it. They believe the world owes them something, and for a while, the world listens. Then life grows teeth, and that delusion, the very engine that kept us alive, gets branded as immaturity. We trade it for logic, and logic quietly kills us. Depression isn’t the absence of power; it’s the raw, unfiltered version of it. Only intelligent beings can collapse under awareness. You opened this because something inside you went quiet and you keep hoping someone will hand you the manual. There isn’t one.Alright, I agree, I’m coming off a little strong. But let’s face it, people who’ve had their share of rock bottom don’t come back polite. They come back with receipts. You can’t reach heaven without being rooted in hell. Someone said that, and whoever they were, they were right. Rock meets bottom The sooner you realize you either face your demons or you raise them into your children, the better.Quick truth: comfort scrolls, positive affirmations. Which do you want right now? I’ll choose for you, change.Reality breaks you; break it back. Suddenly, you stop attaching any emotional dependence to seeing reality change. It doesn’t expect you to be that indifferent. You’ve made your depression your power. You become someone who’s good with or without an outcome. An avenger of reality. Someone who makes reality nervous. One sentence that is true: you have more than you think, and you can prove it in one week.If I can make that true for you with three tiny rules, will you try them?

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