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Hi Brian, I don't read each publication, but certainly I look forward to receiving them all! I recently quoted a segment of your intro on my newsletter, and in my own inner work of late + conversations with my partner point to many of the same topics and subtopics you discuss here. The resonance is very real. I have left this tab for this particular publication open for weeks and weeks, and TODAY is the day I finally read it. It is so timely following a difficult and necessary conversation with my partner on what she's realized through the "Expand The Box" training series. Anyway, thank YOU. Your words, thoughts, references, all of it - they have gotten me to be positively pensive state, and they heal.

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aww, I love this, Jonathan. I'm glad you are finding resonance, and deepening your relationships. thank you for taking the time to share, it means a lot to me.

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May 23, 2023Liked by Brian Stout

I really relate to this and appreciate you articulating the thoughts that lie behind the feelings. This morning, I was thinking about if I can actually sacrifice all of these stories and cultural narratives to the aether. I immediately felt a lot lighter in my body. I'm aspiring to no longer identify with "outcast" or the unattended to "giver" so I can just live in a more dignified mode of accepting that people like my presence, simple as that.

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