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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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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 Santí
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 Santí
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 Santí
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 Santí
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 Santí
Jun 22, 20204 min read
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 Santí
Jun 15, 20206 min read
You don't know where you're going
I worked at Cornell for five years. I had a job working in the office of international education. I reported directly to the Vice...
Lex Santí
Jun 10, 20202 min read
Horse Heads
When I was 19 years old my car was surrounded by three cop cars in a road block in Horseheads, NY, about 20 minutes outside of Ithaca,...
Lex Santí
Jun 1, 20206 min read
How I Got Here: A Social Worker's Road to Practice
Lex Enrico Santi, LCSW, MFA I didn’t always know I’d be a therapist. In fact, my path here started with words—stories, poems, voices that...
Lex Santí
Apr 30, 20203 min read
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