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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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The gallery covers of Our Stories
From 2006 until 2012 and then on and off for another 5 years, I ran a literary journal with a humanistic model of giving writers...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Apr 1, 20211 min read


In memoriam, Pago
I had the opportunity to walk the earth with another being that gave me such incredible love and fierce grace across the course of almost...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Mar 20, 202115 min read


Our Stories Literary Journal
Fulfilling a promise I made to writers I published almost 10 years ago Before I worked as a therapist I was a writer and an editor of a literary journal from 2006 till 2012. It was a business that I took up with friends in order to prove a point, that literary journals could be something of a workshop for those whose stories were "just a little off" and we could give feedback to every story that we ever received. It was a bold and humanistic idea. To run a business is a beaut
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Dec 16, 20204 min read


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 Santí, LCSW, MFA
Oct 12, 20202 min read


Fixing the Literary System, Interview
Interview about the literary journal world. Republished from the ReviewReview Fixing the System: A Lit Mag Finds Compassion For its...
Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA
Oct 4, 202018 min read


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 Santí, LCSW, MFA
Aug 4, 20205 min read


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 Santí, LCSW, MFA
Jul 29, 20203 min read


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 Santí, LCSW, MFA
Jun 22, 20205 min read


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 Santí, LCSW, MFA
Jun 22, 20204 min read
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