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A key therapy blog
Thoughts, ruminations, recommendations from a mindfulness therapist. My life has been a mix of literary exploration, government work, and global education. My journey has taken me across the world—from working with street children in Romania to teaching in South Korea—before returning home to focus on crisis management and therapy.

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Reviews


Book Review: Careless People – A Riveting and Troubling Look Inside Facebook’s Rise and Fall
I found Careless People to be an enthralling and deeply troubling read. It is a riveting page-turner that holds nothing back, written...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Apr 103 min read
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The Three Robbers and the Path to True Freedom
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA Ramakrishna, the great Indian saint, often told the story of the three robbers as a metaphor for the...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Mar 254 min read
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The Problem with Pearl-Clutching Podcasts: When Storytelling Goes Nowhere
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA I love podcasts, I think they're great, really. Lately, I’ve found myself exhausted by a particular brand of...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Mar 194 min read
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The Last of Us In the Post CoVid World
SPOILER ALERT: there are details revealed in a TV episode 5 of the Last of Us, below which may muck up your desire to keep reading if you...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Feb 15, 20234 min read
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STUTZ: a review and what it means to return to Pallas Fitness
Recently, a documentary on Netflix about mental health has gained a refreshing amount of positive attention. I'd like to add to that...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Jan 22, 20235 min read
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Fiction: What Do You Think?
This short story, all told in dialogue, was published first in the IN POSSE Review in July of 2016 . “But what do you think?” “What do...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Jul 1, 20165 min read
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Fiction: Leonard Twitty, Savior of Lost Children
This piece of fiction was published by Dark Sky Magazine, originally in 2016. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a hard link any...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Apr 1, 201619 min read
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Fiction: Harlot's Way
This was a piece of "flash fiction" a sort of get in quick and write about something and leave, which I've read publicly a number of...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Sep 1, 20095 min read
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Non Fiction: One Pure Thing
Non-Fiction Essay about my battle with alcohol Originally published by Prick of the Spindle in 2009 One Pure Thing — for Richard Bausch ...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Sep 1, 200914 min read
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Poetry: Cubista Magazine
In December of 2006 I published a series of poems in Cubista Magazine . The works spanned over 7 years of poems which I had written and...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Dec 1, 20066 min read
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Poetry: Plum Ruby Review
These poems were the first I ever published. In August of 2004. They were early in my writing career and both came out as bolts as...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Sep 1, 20042 min read
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