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Valerie Spina

Essays on sovereignty, spirit, and building a life that actually means something.

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Valerie Spina

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Oct 6, 2025

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9 min read

The woman who already knew me

A short story about the characters we meet inside ourselves

Valerie Spina

Jan 14, 2026

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8 min read

Stop being an NPC

Neoliberal neutrality makes you manipulable and here's why

Valerie Spina

Sep 24, 2025

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The concepts of God we build

Changing your image of God might be the key to ending your anxiety and finally learning to love all of life.

Valerie Spina

Sep 27, 2025

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Your body holds the wisdom

How the world disconnects us from the body and why Tylenol is a spiritual issue

Valerie Spina

Jan 16, 2026

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The prestige bug

How prestige became the organizing principle of my life

Valerie Spina

Nov 17, 2025

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Why I'll never go back to ISTA

How the “follow your desire” philosophy leads to spiritual bypass, victim-blaming, and broken integrity

Valerie Spina

The Problem With Having a Soul in This Economy

The world doesn't seem to have a job for me, uncertainty, and a healing love

Valerie Spina

Are we in the timeline where the woo-woo is real?

Mar 12, 2026

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Are we in the timeline where the woo-woo is real?

How lucid dreams, quantum theory, and modern science are blurring the line between mysticism and truth

Valerie Spina

Mar 11, 2026

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Is this worth my time and energy?

How to know when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em, and when to walk away

Valerie Spina

Mar 10, 2026

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Standing in the light is the real work

On overcoming addiction to just do the simple shit

Valerie Spina

Mar 6, 2026

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What if we could build a new world?

Musings on why I'm still dreaming of intentional community, what works and what doesn't

Valerie Spina

Mar 5, 2026

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I should have been a comedian

Calling silliness back in and the greatest gift of not fitting in

Valerie Spina

Mar 4, 2026

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The time I almost got waterboarded

Desire, degradation, and the moment I realized I didn’t want intensity—I wanted love

Valerie Spina

Mar 3, 2026

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The medicine of the blood moon

On letting my partner evolve and not pushing so hard

Valerie Spina

Mar 2, 2026

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5 min read

The girl with the husky voice

On joy, survival patterns, and returning to the one who runs through the halls

Valerie Spina

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Featured Posts

The woman who already knew me

Stop being an NPC

The concepts of God we build

Your body holds the wisdom

The prestige bug

Why I'll never go back to ISTA

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The Problem With Having a Soul in This Economy

Are we in the timeline where the woo-woo is real?

Is this worth my time and energy?

Standing in the light is the real work

What if we could build a new world?

I should have been a comedian

The time I almost got waterboarded

The medicine of the blood moon

The girl with the husky voice

Valerie Spina

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