{"id":2482,"date":"2022-07-14T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T21:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theresarogers.art\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2022-07-18T23:24:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T06:24:32","slug":"true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresarogers.art\/?p=2482","title":{"rendered":"true story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

There are many fallacies at the base of American culture, but in my writing I focus on two of the most harmful: \u201cEverything\u2019s fine\u201d and \u201cSuck it up.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People aren\u2019t allowed to admit they\u2019re struggling and, if they do admit they need help, are told either to get over it or to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. We\u2019ve pathologized anyone who goes ahead and gets help anyway and marginalized them as weak, untrustworthy, and even frightening\u2014when will they slip, and what will they be capable of?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is, some of the strongest obstacles to being a truly authentic human being stem from these two fallacies. In fact, in order to find who we really are, we have to dive into those parts of ourselves denied by them, and that\u2019s scary\u2014those parts don\u2019t have pretty faces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a reason we stuff them away the moment company shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lonely Guy by Kerast<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The only way to an authentic life, filled with meaningful connections, is through those dark, scary places. They include our wounds, our broken places\u2026and the pieces of ourselves we created to survive what we\u2019ve not been able to control. Those pieces were useful once\u2014now they are our prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I put characters in positions where it becomes impossible not to face their inner landscapes. My stories point the way to new bedrock from which to create our own culture of authenticity. They move from \u201cEverything\u2019s fine\u201d to \u201cNot everything is fine, and that\u2019s true for everyone you see around you\u201d; from \u201cSuck it up\u201d to \u201cYou don\u2019t have to go through this alone.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether I’m putting characters at a point in their lives where they can no longer turn from the impacts of their trauma, or using the medium of erotic interaction, which I believe strips us down to our real psychology in a way few other human interactions do, I chart character recognition of and growth through their own psychological minefields to the hope of a better, deeper, and more intimate, in the true sense of that word, life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In and through my stories, I hope to help people find their tribe.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Do this. Your whole life.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n