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Thoughts on identity, integration, and building a life that actually fits.


The Idea of God Isn't God
Watch video version on my Youtube Channel. There's a difference between believing in an idea of God and actually experiencing God. Most of us live in the first one without knowing it. Take every human being's experience, every generation that's ever existed, add it all together, and it still wouldn't come close to touching the vastness of what God is. Every concept, every religion, every idea we've built around God is a finger pointing at something none of it can fully hold.

Zachary Leal
Aug 71 min read


My Therapist Told Me My Biggest Coping Mechanism Was Performance. She Was Right.
Watch the video version at my Youtube Channel. I was sitting in therapy when my therapist said something that stopped me cold. She told me my biggest coping mechanism — the one I had never noticed, the one I had never even considered a coping mechanism — was performance. Not alcohol. Not avoidance. Not anger. Performance. Doing. Staying busy. Checking things off a list so I could feel like I was in control. And she was right. Why Am I Always Busy But Still Anxious? If you hav

Zachary Leal
Jun 263 min read


Why Am I So Easily Frustrated and Angry?
Watch a video version at my YouTube Channel. There is a perspective shift that changed everything for me. It is not complicated. But if you actually apply it, it will change how you respond to every difficult person and every frustrating situation in your life. You can see everyone and everything around you as a mirror. Why Am I So Easily Frustrated and Angry? If you have ever asked yourself why you feel so easily frustrated or why certain people trigger you so consistently,

Zachary Leal
Jun 123 min read
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