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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 just a feeling that the life you’re living and the life you know is yours aren’t quite the same thing yet.
That gap, between who you know yourself to be and where you actually are, is where this work begins.
The Permanist is a weekly publication on identity and transition. Not the motivational version. The real version, why change doesn’t stick, why people get stuck in the middle of becoming, and what actually moves them forward.
I came to this work through years as a clinical weight loss practitioner, watching people do everything right and still find themselves back where they started. Not because they lacked discipline. Because the identity underneath the behavior never changed. That pattern led me deeper than weight loss — into the mechanics of how people navigate any major transition and why so many get stranded in the middle.
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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