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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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"White Presenting" and what it means
Reflections on identity based support By: Lex Enrico Santi, LCSW, MFA -- A Key Therapy PLLC My experience in higher education and...
Lex Enrico SantÃ, LCSW, MFA
Apr 25 min read
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Did Turning Down a Job Change the Course of History?
A Reflection on Power, Integrity, and the Road Not Taken By Lex Enrico Santi, LCSW, MFA Lex Enrico Santi In 2003, I was a returned Peace...
Lex Enrico SantÃ, LCSW, MFA
Mar 107 min read
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Resilient Movements in Uncertain Times: Building Stronger Organizations in Activism, Social Work, and Higher Education
Maurice Mitchell’s article Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis  provides a critical...
Lex Enrico SantÃ, LCSW, MFA
Mar 54 min read
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Late-Stage Capitalism and the Tyre Nichols Moment
The slaying of Tyre Nichols is a moment in late-stage capitalism which must give all social justice minded thinkers and humanistic folks...
Lex Enrico SantÃ, LCSW, MFA
Feb 2, 20233 min read
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OPPRESSION AND DISCRIMINATION ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS
Pt. 4 in a series on oppression... ​We often hear from individuals in the media or worse, in social media, examples of when a member of...
Lex Enrico SantÃ, LCSW, MFA
Oct 12, 20202 min read
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EXPERIENCING OPPRESSION WORKS ON DIFFERENT LEVELS
PT. 3 In a Series on Oppression This is a difficult topic to introduce because it requires to expansively think of ourselves as embodying...
Lex Enrico SantÃ, LCSW, MFA
Aug 4, 20205 min read
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The Ithaca-Cornell Social Contract
Ithaca wears an oddly fitting town-gown with Cornell; we have graced the bottom of a certain middle-finger-lake for over 150 years and...
Lex Enrico SantÃ, LCSW, MFA
Jul 29, 20203 min read
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THE CYCLE OF PERSONAL OPPRESSION
Systems of oppression are taught and reinforced by a cycle of oppression which keeps you locked into a way of thinking about the way the...
Lex Enrico SantÃ, LCSW, MFA
Jun 22, 20205 min read
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MAKING CONNECTIONS & TEACHING FOR CHANGE
The course that changed my life was called Making Connections. When I was in college at Hobart and William Smith, there was a program...
Lex Enrico SantÃ, LCSW, MFA
Jun 22, 20204 min read
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There is no hierarchy of oppression
I want to share with you a system of looking at the world, which when explained to me, fundamentally changed the way that I understood...
Lex Enrico SantÃ, LCSW, MFA
Jun 15, 20206 min read
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Political Essay: The War on Odor & The War on Terror
I wrote this essay in 2003. It was picked up by the now defunct Democratic Underground that under Bush 43 was struggling to put itself...
Lex Enrico SantÃ, LCSW, MFA
Dec 3, 20034 min read
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