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Ketamine Dreams: How the Hero's Journey Can Hinder Recovery
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River Selby (they/them)
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Substack is Social Media Now, I Guess
Damn those check marks.
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River Selby (they/them)
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Capitalism Creates Hungry Ghosts
Learning to forego the allure of new
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River Selby (they/them)
21
A Permanent Goodbye to Social Media
and an acknowledgement that it isn't just about social media
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River Selby (they/them)
68
The Infinite Well of Capitalistic Wanting and the False Promise of Manifestation
Trauma responses and Embracing Stability
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River Selby (they/them)
17
Hello, My Name Is River
Stepping into the expanse and accepting myself as I am
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River Selby (they/them)
19
How to Fail on Substack
Giving up the Ghost of Infinite Capitalist Production and Sharing my Truth
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River Selby (they/them)
18
The Hardest Break-Up Ever, and It's Not Even With a Person
Reckoning with my real life.
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River Selby (they/them)
9
"You Don't Seem Autistic"
Processing my sensory processing disorder
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River Selby (they/them)
8
She Spat On Me
On Being Homeless and the "problem" of unhoused people
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River Selby (they/them)
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Tik Tok Soul Suck
social media is the f*cking devil
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River Selby (they/them)
38
The Privilege of Breaking Down
making it through
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River Selby (they/them)
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