You know that black pill you've been chewing on for the last couple year? You need to spit it out. On my flight home from the Bioregulatory Medicine Institute I was re-reading the book The Alchemist, which last I read like 15 years ago. There were a couple quotes that really stood out to me, I'm gonna share them with you here and then go into this Pill metaphor that they got me to thinking about. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,"the boy told the alchemist one

“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?” ― Carl R. Rogers As a graduate psychology student in an American university, I have been taught that we are all racists, whether we know it or not. Admit to racism? Racist! Deny it? Extra racist! If you are white, you are obviously