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If you’ve landed here, something probably brought you.
Maybe a post that named something you’ve been carrying quietly. Maybe a question you’ve been circling for a while. Maybe you’ve lost weight, ended a relationship, changed careers, or moved through something that shifted everything, and somewhere in the middle of all of it you found yourself asking: who am I now?
That question is where this work begins.
The Permanist is a weekly publication about why lasting change is so hard, and what actually makes it stick. Not the motivational version. The real version, why people do everything right and still find themselves back where they started, why the middle of any major change feels like something is wrong with you when it isn’t, and what actually moves people forward.
I came to this work through years as a clinical weight loss practitioner, watching people do everything right and still drift back. Not because they lacked discipline. Because the version of themselves they were trying to leave behind was still running the show underneath everything. That pattern led me deeper than weight loss, into how people navigate any major transition without losing themselves in the process.
Every Thursday you’ll get an essay. No formulas, no five-step plans. Just honest, precise writing on what’s actually happening when change feels harder than it should.
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