Ann Selene

A Liturgy of Becoming

Profound change is realized when you encounter the unrecognizable — the moment you look back at your past self and realize you are looking… Continue
University

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From Self to Story: Narrative Psychology and the Memoirist’s Path to Individuation

Being a memoirist is a vulnerable role; you are both the author and the character. It forces you to dig deep, to hold your lived…
The Pathology of Consumption: Cognitive Dissonance and Its Biological Impact on Ecosystems

It has been very clear to me for many years, as I have attended conferences and traveled across the entire United States, the ultimate… Continue
The Architecture of Auditory Storytelling

The successful deployment of an independent digital broadcasting station (KPNL Radio) and a specialized podcast (The Caravan of Lore)… Continue reading on Medium » Original
Misinterpreting Humility as a Lack of Confidence

Tim Mossholder Unsplash There have been moments in my life where I have sat on podcasts, spoken at conferences, or been lost in a deep
Soil of the Soul: Post-Traumatic Growth and the Externalization of Melancholy

The rains of May have returned. It is hard to believe that a year has passed since I moved to this beautiful place, and even
The Radical Act of Self-Study: Moving from Passive Patient to Informed Partner

I remember a time when my curiosity was met with criticism and an expectation of passive compliance. I was the patient. The doctor… Continue reading
The Biological Tax of the Cultural Play: A Researcher’s Hypothesis

Google Images What happens when a researcher’s internal drive for obscure depth psychology collides with the rigid, industrial-era “scripts” of academia? To explore this, I
Passion vs. The Play: Breaking Free from Inherited Expectations

Alexandru Postovanu Unsplash Cultural plays are a fascinating thing; most of us never even realize that we are part of a subconscious lineage of acting

The Lands that Live Within Me

June 18, 2025 Ann Selene Musings

Copilot Sometimes I sit with the question: Who am I? And I think of the lands I’ve never walked, but which live inside me like echoes. Not one place. Not one people. But a tapestry of migration, myth, and meaning. From England and Northwestern Europe, I carry the bones of ancient stone circles

Caught Between Waking and Dreaming

June 17, 2025 Ann Selene Musings

copilot Today is gentle. Today is for the soft breeze through lace curtains, the steam rising over a hot cup of coffee you have yet to press your lips to. Today is for being — for existing in these clothes, in this skin, just as you are. The world has yet to stir;

Viraloth

June 16, 2025 Ann Selene Musings

copilot generated You thrive in the unknown. The spaces between certainty and dread. Twisting perception, embedding into daily ritual. You are the known and the unknown Once, they called it miasma, a foul breath rising from the earth, a sickness carried on the wind, not in the hands that touched the dying.