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A Key to Something
Where therapy meets writing.
Essays and reflections on mindfulness, identity, and the practice of paying attention — from Lex E. Santí, LCSW, and the A Key Therapy team.
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Creative Writing and Therapy
What would it mean to combine these two worlds? I have published 6 books of creative writing as an editor. Published fiction and poetry....
Lex Santí
Feb 13, 20231 min read
The Year I took a Photo a Day
From 2010-2011, now 12 years ago, I took a photo a day. This is how I described it back then: From March 1st, 2010 until March 31st, 2011...
Lex Santí
Feb 2, 20231 min read
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 Santí
Feb 2, 20233 min read
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 Santí
Jan 22, 20235 min read
What is Mindfulness?
What is Mindfulness? And other questions about how I approach therapy. I get asked this a lot: what is your approach to being a...
Lex Santí
Aug 16, 20213 min read
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 Santí
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 Santí
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...
Lex Santí
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 Santí
Oct 12, 20202 min read
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