Damon Sasi (@DaystarEld) is a mentor of mine, and he is also a therapist who claims to be very psychologically healthy. What's his inner experience like?

• “Probably for an average week, maybe I'll suffer for like five minutes”
• “I don't think I have any prolonged internal conflict”
• “Self-loathing to me was a weird concept […] Like, what does it mean to like self-loathe?”

It's not that he had a great childhood, either.

[My childhood] wasn't terrible. And I say this and then maybe I'll give some examples and people will be like, maybe it was terrible. […] my parents divorced when I was pretty young. Both my parents, I think, were very absent. […]

He would get drunk often. He once hit me in the back with a two by four. My older brother was pretty physically abusive before he chilled out. And by chilled out, I mean [...]

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(00:33) It's not that he had a great childhood, either.

(01:35) What is it like to be psychologically healthy?

(02:45) Details in podcast.

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