CJ Keil

Accredited

For the past eight years, CJ has been on a journey to answer one question: How does she come alive again? Along the way, CJ has explored eros, embodiment, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, nervous system science, and poetic truth in search of answers. What she has learned is this: our stories aren’t wounds—they’re roles we are still playing. The high-achiever who proves worth through exhaustion. The caretaker who earns love through self-abandonment. The healing person whose entire sense of self requires staying broken. We become competent at being who our stories require us to be—and that competence becomes the cage. In her work with others, CJ doesn’t focus on wounds. She examines a person’s loyalty to the identity built around them, because the most dangerous cage is the one someone has learned to navigate perfectly. Pain is information. Power is choice. Pleasure is a language.

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