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The Architect Speaks - For Those Who Can No Longer Be Who They Were

by Michael Lauria

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About the show

Most people have performed their entire lives and called it living. This is for the ones who've noticed. The Architect Speaks is Michael Lauria, a qualified therapist, author and philosophical mythologist, on the father wound, people pleasing, self betrayal, shadow work, purpose, money, identity, and what it takes to build a coherent life after you stop performing one. No noise, just signal. The Atlas names the pattern running your life in a single sitting. Free, about forty-five minutes: codexofthearchitect.com/what-is-the-atlas/ Enter. Listen. Leave as less of what you are not.