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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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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 12 years. I am now saying goodbye to him, in the only way that I know how, which is by writing about our life together. As someone once told me, "write to make it all real." What follows is his story. If you have lost a dog it may give you solace or it may cause to reflect on your sadness. I am a writer first, and all other things second, s
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


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
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