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  1. Heavy metal detox -- Deep info on proper chelation -- Convinced by user to post this
    Heavy metal detox -- Deep info on proper chelation -- Convinced by user to post this
    I've said things on it enough times. Leo can do the rest. There's nothing else I know that I haven't posted/commented here.
    Copied and pasted comments are in between the ----------'s. The rest is additional information.
    Disclaimer: ALA referred to here is not the omega 3 fatty acid, alpha linolenic acid. It’s alpha lipoic acid. AKA thioctic acid. I don’t have any experience with chelators besides ALA and DMSA, but DMPS certainly seems to have merit as well. ALA must be taken no less frequently than every 3 hours, and DMSA must be taken no less frequently than every 4 hours (i.e. e3h is even better) — both must be taken at this frequency for at least 72 hours straight, otherwise the chelation round was not only unsuccessful...you may have just damaged your body and likely your brain. Anything other than these 3 chelators, zeolite, and in rare cases, EDTA, for chelation, is dangerous and anyone advocating it has no clue how chelators work. The double thiol group acts as a loose but effective hook of sorts — a lone thiol group will just spread metals around haphazardly (possibly causing damage and stress), without latching onto them and actually taking them out of the body. ALA, DMSA, and DMPS are double thiol chelators that are safe when used correctly.
    Andy Cutler’s writings, and his posts and wikis on onibasu are where you go for further info.
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    I didn't feel anything off 600mg ALA + 100mg DMSA e3h for 30+ day rounds, fwiw.
    I mean, I didn't get side-effects. The brain fog and fatigue went away.
    And ALA only affects mercury (and arsenic, which is not as big of a deal). DMSA chelates lead and mercury.
     
    Btw 64 hours is too short. That's cutting it way too close -- healing/damage ratio is positive by the 72 hour mark for adults, and maybe 60 hours for small children, but you might as well get the ratio as high as possible... Aim for 96+ hours; preferably 7-14+ days. The longer the better, provided you keep copper under control. You CANNOT take ALA for long cycles without zinc (and preferably molybdenum too) 4x/d, or you will be profoundly overloaded with copper.
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    It is very, very risky, unless you do it right. It cured my chronic fatigue but I did it all-in, hardcore style. 6 month cycle with only a few 3-7 day breaks. With every ancillary carefully selected for copper-toxicity control, alarms so I'd never miss a dose, etc. I never had amalgam but by God there must've been something in my body because damn it worked.
     
    I dosed ALA and DMSA every 3 hours around the clock for months on end. Started at low doses and worked up to 600mg ALA / 100mg DMSA e3h. Falling blood levels cause redistribution, so the key is to not let them fall, ever, until you inevitably have to go off -- at which point there will be damage, but the goal is to have the healing net-outweigh the damage. Break-even healing/damage ratio is achieved between hours 60 and 72 of a cycle. Once you make it that long, you know you've succeeded for that round, and you should continue to milk it as long as you can handle to get that ratio up. Thus, long rounds/cycles are much more effective, but harder to deal with side-effect wise... and it carries the risk of oxidative stress from the DMSA, and copper toxicity from the ALA (avoid eating nuts while on ALA). I didn't really have side-effects. As soon as you miss a dose, that round is over, you need to take a break, and if the missed dose occurred before hour 72, the cycle was basically not successful.
    It can be especially helpful if you have anything significantly greater than perfectly healthy amounts of mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and even iron in your system. The copper overload induced by the ALA very effectively purges iron from the body -- something that may be quite helpful if one has eaten a lot of iron-fortified foods in their life.
    The reason chelation studies haven't shown much in the way of curing chronic fatigue is simply because they dosed every 8 hours. DMSA must be dosed every 4 (or less) hours to prevent falling levels, which alone is responsible for the redistribution damage and prevents the healing/damage ratio from being a positive number.
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    You can get it done a lot faster if you do long rounds. Let me explain...
    The minimum round-length is 72 hours in order to be reasonably certain that the healing/damage ratio is a positive number. The longer the round, the higher that number. Falling systemic levels of the double-thiol chelator are what cause redistribution, which is why you have to take the chelator so frequently, and why longer rounds are far more efficient -- your levels don't fall until the very end of each round, when you stop taking it, therefore you should minimize the amount of times you have to do this, via going as long as you can handle. The only reason not to do them for long stretches is an inability to handle it.
    A 3-4 day round and a 3-4 day break every week will clean out sufficient mercury/lead within 2-5 years (closer to 1-2 years if you did 1-2 weeks on / 1-2 weeks off) -- the same thing can be achieved with one 6-month round, though you shouldn't actually do it that long. I basically intended to do one 6-month round but there were a few 5-7 day breaks (each initiated upon accidentally missing a dose) so it ended up being essentially three 2-month rounds, in the end -- that's all it took. I recommend planning on a 6 month round and just taking a 7-14 day break each and every time you inevitably accidentally miss a dose.
    And btw, each 50% increase in dose results in an 18% faster rate of mercury excretion... Since taking larger doses results in comparatively less redistribution, taking larger doses (ramp up as you can handle) will not only speed the process up a bit, it may also have a bit of a buffer effect, protecting you from times when you miss a dose by 30-60min, which should rarely happen, nonetheless. For the majority of my largely-uninterrupted 6-month cycle, I was taking 600mg ALA and 100mg DMSA every 3 hours.
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    E.g. If you take 100mg ALA every 3 hours for 72 hours running, that would be a 3-day (72 hour) round (or cycle), which is the absolute minimum length the round must be, since you damage yourself every time you come off, but damage while on-cycle (on-round) is minimal -- it's almost all heavy metal excretion (no redistribution) while on-round. The break even healing/damage point occurs after 60-72 hours (of consistently taking the chelator every 3 hours), so it would be to your benefit to do rounds much longer than this. The fastest route would be a 6 month round, but I don't think that's ever been done and it's not advised. I essentially did three 2-month rounds with a 1-week break between each.
    Doing it for long stretches at a time significantly decreases the total amount of time you'll have to spend on-round before you clear out all the heavy metals you need to. However, copper toxicity can be a problem with ALA, so you'll need to take both zinc and molybdenum 4x/day -- twice a day is insufficient. Even taking 7.5mg zinc and 250mcg molybdenum (the appropriate amounts) 4x a day each will not stave off copper toxicity forever. And oxidative stress can be an issue with DMSA so you have to take antioxidants.
    Does that clarify?
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    Those were all the relevant posts I could find. That's literally all I know, but I'm happy to answer further questions if you need clarification. Again I don't know all there is to know about the subject, so I doubt I'll be able to provide anything else. But perhaps there were some posts I missed where I went into some other details. Good luck!
     
    Remember the zinc and molybdenum 4x/d when using ALA. I'm not sure if it's best to take breaks on the zinc/moly in between rounds, or to keep using them off round -- that is one example of something I am unclear on myself -- there seem to be pros and cons to each option -- it's very likely neither choice is gonna kill you though. I'm not the arbiter of truth on this.
    ^^
    ... EDIT 5/24/2021 — additional explanation for the above paragraph. After your final round you should definitely continue to take the zinc/moly 4x/d for some time (probably at least a month), to purge residual copper, which will likely be quite high at this point. When you’re no longer planning on taking more ALA, there’s no reason not to do this... ALA causes some zinc overload but not nearly as bad as it does copper overload, and nothing purges copper quite like zinc... On ALA, you want to take just enough zinc to keep copper retention somewhat under control (30-50mg daily in 4 divided doses; it actually won’t even prevent copper overload, it’ll just slow it down, lol), and too much zinc will just exacerbate ALA’s zinc retention, so it’s a balance... But once ALA is no longer in the picture, if your copper is high, you can continue the zinc for a little while with generally no issue. Since the zinc is basically a limited resource in the scenario of ALA use (as in you shouldn’t take too much of it because it’s only a matter of time before your zinc levels become too high as well), additional means of reducing copper retention would be very wise, such as molybdenum (1-2mg a day in 4 divided doses), stimulating bile flow, and avoiding dietary sources of copper (such as nuts) — the zinc is not optional though, as those options don’t come close to the anti-copper affect zinc has (related to the metallothionein mechanism).
    There is some evidence that ALA depletes biotin in a hazardous way if you don’t consume extra in the diet or by supplementation.
     
    And never EVER stop DMSA before ALA. It will cause net redistribution into the brain. Stop them both at the exact same time or stop the ALA before the DMSA. If DMSA didn't have a slightly longer half-life than ALA, stopping them both together would not be safe -- but DMSA leaves the body slightly slower, so it is safe to stop them concurrently. This would not be the case if using extended release ALA, but you should never use extended-release ALA to begin with, since the absorption rate differs at different points along the digestive tract, and it hasn't been studied enough. Do not use extended-release anything in chelation.
    I don't know this, but I have an intuition that it may be prudent to start with a few DMSA-only rounds to reduce body mercury content, so that when you eventually introduce ALA, it won't start with the potential, temporary issue of a net increase in brain mercury -- though even if you did start with ALA, that issue would only happen if mercury concentration was greater in body than across blood brain barrier, and even if that was so, the issue would of course only be temporary -- after all, you're aiming to eventually get essentially ALL of it out, indiscriminately from everywhere. But I'd imagine even temporary increases of mercury in the brain are not desirable. This is a bit of a nod, it seems, away from ALA-only rounds, at least in the beginning, but Andy Cutler didn't mention that issue, to my knowledge (idk maybe he did), and he probably knows best. So I wouldn't worry about it.
    And if you want to go by the book (so to speak), time on should equal time off. That's not what I did, but that's what I'd advise as a measure of safety.

  2. IFS Therapy
    IFS Therapy
    There are therapists who do zoom sessions.  
         https://personal-growth-programs.com/individual/
         https://everettconsidine.com/witnessed-ifs-sessions/
         Everett Considine has recorded IFS sessions you can listen to to get a sense of how sessions go.  I think Derek Scott on youtube does zoom sessions too.  Parts work is a big field, so I'm sure there are other therapists who do a version of it if you prefer to see someone in person.   
         You can definitely do it solo.  It's better to learn the fundamentals on your own so that if you do sessions you can squeeze more juice out of them.   
         There's an IFS Workbook that has more detailed exercises that you can get along with various IFS books, like Self-Therapy and Freedom from Your Inner Critic. 

  3. 📜 Leo’s Blog: Table of Contents 📜 (2017 - 2023)
    📜 Leo’s Blog: Table of Contents 📜 (2017 - 2023)
    📜 Leo’s Blog: Table of Contents 📜
    (2017 - 2023)
    ➼ @MuadDib has a list of all of Leo's Blog links in descending chronological order:  List of Blog Links in Descending Order
    ➼ List and Summaries of Actualized.org Episodes are in the Self-Actualization Forum.
    ➼ Actualized.org on Psychedelics: Safety, Trip Reports, Research, Episodes, Forum Mega-Threads, General Info.
    ➼ List and Summaries of Leo’s Blog Videos, Summaries and Interviews.
    The Best of Leo’s Blog Essays on Epistemology and Enlightenment. (Read these.  They’re good and short) Posts on Actualized.org News Posts on Creativity & Art, Gaming Posts on Images of Infinity, Strange Loops ➰ Posts on Funzies, Music, Conferences 😹 Posts on Cults — Case Studies Posts of Quotes (Proverbs, Yoda, Batman) <(⦿_⦿)>  🦹 ______________________________________________________
    Blog Posts for 2017  Blog Posts for 2018  Blog Posts for 2019  Blog Posts for 2020  Blog Posts for 2021   Blog Posts for 2022   Blog Posts for 2023 ______________________________________________________
    (Essay) for posts with an extended commentary by Leo. (note) for posts with a short commentary by Leo.  
    ⁉️    Epistemology 🤯   Enlightenment 🌈   Spiral Dynamics 💪   Life Purpose and Mastery 😹   Funzies (after Sept 2021) 💸   Money & Corruption ➰   Strange Loops  
    🍄       Psychedelics 🍄🧷   Psychedelics and Safety 🍄🧳   Trip Report 🍄🔬   Psychedelics Research

  4. Actualized.org Blog: Table of Contents
    Actualized.org Blog: Table of Contents
    Actualized.org Blog: Table of Contents
    List of Leo’s Blog Videos List of Blog Quotes Posts on Cults, Creativity & Art Posts on Images of Infinity, Strange Loops Posts on Gaming, Funzies, Music Posts on Actualized.org, Conferences  
    Blog Posts for 2017.............(pg 45 - 58) Blog Posts for 2018.............(pg 31 - 45) Blog Posts for 2019.............(pg 18 - 31) Blog Posts for 2020.............(pg   8 - 18) Blog Posts for 2021.............(pg   1 -  8) _________________________________________________________________________________________
    Table of Contents covers up to mid-July 2021. blog page numbers will change overtime as more posts get added to the blog. ? = posts about Spiral Dynamics.
    ? = posts about Safety and Psychedelics.
    ? = posts where Leo’s written an essay or extended commentary.
    (note) = posts where Leo’s written a short commentary.

  5. ▶️ Leo’s Blog: Videos, Summaries and Interviews ▶️
    ▶️ Leo’s Blog: Videos, Summaries and Interviews ▶️
    ▶️ Leo’s Blog: Videos, Summaries and Interviews ▶️
    (Most blog videos are 45-60 mins, some are 2 hrs (of course )  Videos are listed in reverse chronological order, for the most part.)
     
                    Epistemology ⁉️ 🤔 💡
    • Apr 21, 2021:     Sherlock Holmes' Brain
    • Mar 21, 2021:    Why Debates Don't Work
    • Feb 25, 2021:     Learning From Partially False Perspectives
    • Aug 23, 2019:    My Critique Of Zizek's Critique Of Buddhism
    • Aug 19, 2019:    Why Are My Videos So Long?
    • Aug 15, 2019:    How To Test For Self-Bias
    • Jun 27, 2019:     Sense Organs Are Imaginary
    • Oct 22, 2018:     Skepticism & Nonduality
    • Sept 16, 2018:   Metaphysics vs Epistemology
    • Sept 4, 2018:     All Understanding Is Metaphoric
    • Oct 3, 2018:       All Understanding Is Metaphoric - Part 2
    • Dec 21, 2017:    Changing Perspectives Destroys Reality (note)
    • Dec 9, 2017:      Understanding Better Than Academics
     
                    Enlightenment 🤯
    • Feb 29, 2020:   What It's Like To Smoke Salvia Divinorum (note) 
    • Feb 5, 2020:     Explaining God For Dummies
    • Dec 17, 2019:   Miracle Awakening
    • Dec 15, 2019:   Ego-Collapse Awakening
    • Jul 17, 2019:     Infinite Love Awakening
    • Jun 21, 2019:    DPT: The Other God Molecule  (Summary)
    • Jun 11, 2019:    Total Omniscience Awakening
    • Nov 29, 2017:   Absolute Infinity Demo (10 mins)
     
                    Life Purpose 💪 😤
    • Aug 23, 2021:    Extra Insights About Good Intentions 🤯 (Summary)
    • Feb 28, 2021:    Guerilla Business Advice   (Summary)
    • Jul 22, 2020:      Requisite Variety & Creative Laziness
    • Jul 11, 2019:      Tapping Into Collective Consciousness 🤯
    • Oct 8, 2018:      How I Started My First Business
    • Sep 10, 2018:    Why Get Rich Quick Schemes Don't Work
     
                    Society & Politics 🌎 🏛️
    • Nov 26, 2020:   Conscious Capitalism BS
    • Jul 8, 2020:        Deconstructing Property Rights
    • Apr 17, 2020:    Why Bernie Sanders Lost (note)
    • Aug 21, 2019:   Rethinking Human History
    • Oct 23, 2019:    Why The Media Is Corrupt
    • Oct 7, 2019:      The Big Picture Of Global Politics
    • Jan 23, 2019:    My Political Awakening (Essay)
    • Sep 6, 2018:     Inside The Mind Of Trump
    • Jan 10, 2018:    Life Lessons From "Life Below Zero" (note)
     
                       Yoga 🧘🏼
    • Mar 6, 2018:    Sitting Posture For Yoga & Meditation (9 mins)
    • Mar 6, 2018:    Don't Half-Ass Yoga (note)
     
                    Leo’s Health & Life 🍎 🥗
    • Feb 18, 2022:   Explaining Take-Down & New Awakening
    • Apr 9, 2021:     Water Fast Ends, Carnivore Diet Begins
    • Mar 17, 2021:  14 Day Water Fast
    • Feb 5, 2021:     Back From 2 Month Break, Updates   (Summary)
    • Jul 21, 2020:     My Health Situation
    • Jul 7, 2019:       Do I Doubt Myself?
     
                       Retreats 🏝️ 🧘🏼 🍄
       Leo’s Retreat at Home: 🏡
    • May 31, 2018:   May 2018 Solo Retreat - Part 1
    • Jun 4, 2018:       May 2018 Solo Retreat - Part 2
    • Jun 8, 2018:       May 2018 Solo Retreat - Part 3 💪
     
       Leo’s Retreats in Hawaii: 🌺
    • Apr 26, 2018:    Second Hawaii Retreat Intro (19 mins)
    • May 1, 2018:     Hawaii Late Night Insights 🌃
    • Apr 22, 2018:    Conclusion: Mindfucked In Hawaii 🍄
     
    • Feb 25, 2018:    First Hawaii Retreat - Feb 2018 (8 videos) 🌴
     
       Leo’s Retreat in Arizona: 🏕️ 🏜️
    • May 7, 2017:     Solo Retreat Videos & Insights (10 videos)
     
                    Interviews with Leo 🎙️
    • Sept 20, 2021:   The Theories of Everything Podcast interviews Leo
                                 — Ego Death, God, Reality vs Dream, TOEs, and an "Ask Me Anything.” (Part Two)
    • Sept 7, 2022:   The Theories of Everything Podcast interviews Leo
                                 — Infinite Consciousness, God Realization, Free Will, and Love (Part One).
    • May 7, 2021:   The Charlie and Ben Podcast interviews Leo
                                 — Deconstructing Reality, Psychedelic Enlightenment and Spiral Dynamics.
     
    • Nov 20, 2016:  Leo Interviews Martin Ball - Using 5-MeO-DMT To Become Enlightened. (ep.#283)
    • Nov 9, 2016:    Leo Interviews Peter Ralston.
    • Nov 2, 2014:    Leo Interviews Tripp Advice - How To Be An Attractive Man. (ep.#176)
     
                    Articles ✍️
    • Leo’s “20 Dream Killers” article.
    • Leo’s "Personal Development Blueprint.”  (covers over 100 Self-Help concepts)
     
                       Viewer Compilations 🥳
    • Incredible, Powerful Concepts on Life & 5-MeO-DMT 🤯 
    • Building a Passionate Life 
    • The BEST Strategy to Attract SUCCESS 
     

  6. Actualized.org Video Summaries!
    Actualized.org Video Summaries!
    Hey guys! I'm gonna upload all the video summaries I have at the moment and will be uploading more of them as I watch them! Needless to say that is a summaries made by me and not transcripts nor Leo's summaries. Probably you will find some of my comments and ideas in them; I enjoy feedback of any type so feel free to comment

  7. Top Relationship Resources
    Top Relationship Resources
    Hey there,
    Today I was reading Ken Wilber's The Religion of Tomorrow book and I was struck with so much gratitude for you @Leo Gura... it's just a gift that I'm even able to understand almost everything that this book says. You have given me so much and I just felt like sharing some love with you. 
    I noticed that I have never shared many precious gifts that I have found along my path with y'all, in an area that I think the actualized.org crew is needing lots of resources, which is relationships (my life's purpose is to teach people how to have conscious, authentic, healthy relationships - I'm a therapist). 
    So here we go, the best resources I have found after years of pursuing this relationship path:
    Best teachers + books + seminars (stage yellow/turquoise)
    https://www.learningloveinstitute.com/
    https://www.learningloveinstitute.com/portfolio/books-2/
    OTHER HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOKS: https://www.learningloveinstitute.com/books-we-recommend/ (great books on sexuality and tantric practices - life-transforming)
    I have tears in my eyes just thinking about these two teachers: Krishnananda & Amana... this is love at its purest. I hope some of you have the opportunity of meeting these teachers, they are the most loving human beings I have ever met. Their teachings are deeply rooted in non duality (they lived with Osho for many many years - they have a very interesting life's story). Even though they call Osho their master, they are the 1st ones to say "Osho was full of shit in many situations".
    I recommend to start by reading their book: Face to Face with Fear – Transforming Fear Into Love or Stepping out of Fear – Breaking Free of Pain and Suffering.
    They try to communicate in a very simple way and give people very simple models for healing. 
    You can solve ANY relationship problem you have in a therapy session with either of them, which costs something around $170. Another amazing thing about them is how their business doesn't revolve around money, their seminars and sessions are fairly cheap compared to most teachers.
    I cannot recommend this work enough. THIS IS GOLD!
    Best way to practice authentic relating based on meditation and find a community of people that you can feel deeply connected to
    https://integralcentered.com/aletheia/ + https://integralcentered.com/ken-wilber-on-authentic-relating/ (Ken Wilber's take on authentic relating)
    https://www.circlinginstitute.com/circling/what-is-circling/
    https://www.circlingeurope.com/what-is-circling
    https://circleanywhere.com/
    I highly recommend circling. It's an amazing way to see your relational blind spots, to feel absurdly connected to other human beings, learn communication tools and etc. It has it's some pitfalls, like not exploring trauma and how to heal wounds, but it's an amazing tool to growth.
    A good introductory book on circling: Circling and authentic relating - Marc Beneteau (even though the author is fairly undeveloped).
    Most big cities have a live circling group these days that you can attend.
    Other good resources
    Podcasts (yellowish): https://relationshipschool.com/podcast/ and https://www.neilsattin.com/relationshipalive/  (there are some false teachings in these podcasts, but many useful teachings and resources).
    Relationship courses + trainings: https://relationshipschool.com/dpir/ - I have been studying with this teacher for the last 2 years. I have spent $25k on his courses and I find them to be a very good base for a healthy relational life. He's mostly yellow, but he's still very stuck in some orange toxicity IMO - he can be very manipulative, greedy and etc. I have done trainings with him because the most recommended teachers - learningloveinstitute - don't offer programs as he does. I still highly recommend this material (especially if you are still in orange or green), but you should know that some of the stuff that he teaches is based on falsehood IMO. I'm leaving this teacher soon and completely focusing on the Learning Love Institute one's.
    Another downside is that it's very expensive.
    Other interesting authors and books:
    Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the path of liberation - Bruce Tift (yellow+turquoise)
    Mindsight - Daniel J Siegel
    Gabor Maté
    ...
    There are many more that I could list here, but I actually think it's best for all of you to focus on the ones that I have already mentioned (too much information can be distracting). All the people that these 2 podcasts interview can be good resources.
     
    @Leo Gura if you are open for feedback: I think that the relationship books in your list are pretty bad lol , which makes sense because you were mostly on stage orange when you created this list (I think).
    The way of the superior man: this book can be very shaming in my opinion and is male chauvinist (even though I loved it when I read it years ago and it has some beautiful insights). My perception today is that it has very poor relationship teachings. Chapters like: Don't force the feminine to make decisions, Praise her, What she wants is not what she says, Her complaint is content-free, She wants to relax in the demonstration of your direction and etc are pretty bad (very blue/orange). Real relational teachings teach you to be with your wounds and emotions, there's very little of that here. I think Deida is a case of someone that maybe has done lots of waking up (maybe not even that), but hasn't done much growing up.
    The 5 Love languages: IMO this is stage blue relationship garbage... the 5 love languages are actually feeding people's egos/shame in most situations. Even though it has a "positive effect" in the short-run, it feeds falsehood in the long run. Example: someone's love language is Words of Affirmation - if you go deep enough, you'll see that the person was traumatized into thinking that he/she is only worthy, lovable when receiving compliments from other people. It's like telling a model that she's beautiful, she'll feel good about it, but it's feeding her shame instead of dealing with it.
    Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus / The 7 Principles That Make Marriage Work / He's Just Not That Into You - these books are very orange and don't give actual tools for people to heal their relational wounds and move towards healthy relationships.
    Let me know how this lands for you! 
     
    If anyone has questions or wants more suggestions and advice, let me know!
    Relationships are such an incredible way to deal with our shadows, especially long term partnerships. And of course, such an important part of life that cannot be avoided. I hope this helps some of you to grow up in the relational area of your lives. 
    Lots of love fellow seekers,
    Gabriel.