You're a Writer, Cory.
For a long time, I wasn't sure if I would ever come back to writing publicly. Life has a funny way of taking you exactly where you need to go, even if the path makes absolutely no sense while you're walking it. The past several years have been some of the most transformative of my life. I spent them immersed in what I can only describe as profound shadow work. If the phrase "Dark Night of the Soul" resonates with you, that's probably the closest description I can give. If you'd rather call it high-functioning depression, that's perfectly fine too. Labels have never mattered much to me. What mattered was the experience itself: questioning everything I believed about myself, dismantling old identities, confronting fears I had carefully avoided for years, and slowly discovering what remained when all the noise settled. Somewhere in the middle of that process, I made what many people considered a rather impractical decision. I went back to university and ear...
