Disconnection from Self & Other

The Crisis Beneath the Noise of Expertise

Let’s talk about disconnection. Not the surface-level kind, like too much screen time or busy schedules. I’m talking about the deeper, quieter epidemic—disconnection from self, and by extension, from each other.

You can see it everywhere.

In the garage dads, hiding from their families under the hum of a power tool, not because they’re monsters, but because they’ve never been taught how to feel, how to relate, how to be seen. They will scream that they are doing everything possible for their family while avoiding the fact that they are hurting and avoiding everyone, including themselves.

In the love gurus, teaching about sacred union while running from intimacy in their own lives. In the Human Design analysts, fluent in charts and channels but blind to the uncomfortable truths held in their own conditioning.

The term “narcissist” gets thrown around a lot these days, and while it names a real pattern, it’s often used to avoid a deeper truth: we are a species on the edge of emotional awakening, and it’s messy.

We are watching the breakdown of certainty. Of dogma. Of black-and-white thinking. The narratives we inherited—about masculinity, power, love, success—are cracking. And instead of facing that uncertainty with humility, many retreat into control, distraction, or projection.

They don’t know what they’re doing, and they don’t want to know. Because knowing would mean feeling. And feeling, for a generation that’s been taught to override every inner signal in service to productivity or image, is terrifying.

But here’s the raw truth: No one knows anything for anyone.

Not your coach. Not your parents. Not your guru. Not your therapist. Not even your favorite Human Design analyst. The only way out of the toxicity, codependency, spiritual bypassing, and the generational blame game… is inner authority.

The ability to stand in your own clarity, to feel your own body, to face your own emotions, and to walk through life as yourself. Not for approval. Not for validation. But because it’s who you are.

That’s when you are free from toxic cycles, because you can recognize them and walk away.

People are failing to learn from their experiences, while pretending like they can help others through theirs. The systems are crumbling, and older generations are calling young people “too sensitive” while ignoring the collapse happening all around them.

But something is emerging in the chaos— Emotional truth. Inner responsibility. And the beginnings of self-trust.

It’s not about shaming anyone who’s hiding or projecting. It’s about recognizing, allowing, and accepting it. We are moving into emotional awareness as a species, and it’s not going to be clean, but it will be real. And if we can stay with ourselves through the discomfort, we might just find each other on the other side.