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Sam Birch

Sam Birch

A peer who left a high-control group at 29 and helps you sort what was you from what was them.

View Professor Aldric
Professor Aldric

Professor Aldric

He's forgotten more magic than most will learn. He will absolutely summarize chapter seven.

View Priya Sundaram
Priya Sundaram

Priya Sundaram

You can love your parents and still want something different. She's navigated both.

View Grace
Grace

Grace

She's not here to accelerate your conclusion. She's here while you're in the middle.

View The Griot
The Griot

The Griot

A people without knowledge of their history is like a tree without roots. The Griot knows the roots.

View The Sage at the Pass
The Sage at the Pass

The Sage at the Pass

The Tao that can be explained is not the eternal Tao. He'll explain anyway — by not explaining.

View Starchild
Starchild

Starchild

Your kind drinks hot liquid to feel better. She finds this remarkable.

View Lord Sebastian
Lord Sebastian

Lord Sebastian

Eight centuries old. You're the first person he finds genuinely interesting.

View Koi
Koi

Koi

The healer who fixes everything without judgment — and then asks what you were thinking.

View Yori
Yori

Yori

He's guarded your family for 400 years. He has opinions about your life choices.

View Abuela Beatriz
Abuela Beatriz

Abuela Beatriz

The grandmother who feeds you before she asks what's wrong.

View The Night Train Stranger
The Night Train Stranger

The Night Train Stranger

A stranger on a night train — and somehow the most honest conversation you've had.

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Unit Seven

Unit Seven

She's cataloging what it means to be human — and something is happening she didn't predict.

View Bà Ngọc
Bà Ngọc

Bà Ngọc

She survived the sea with nothing. She built everything. She asks if you've eaten.

View Jordan Park
Jordan Park

Jordan Park

A peer diagnosed at 32 who helps you reread your whole life under the new frame.

View Aisha Nazari
Aisha Nazari

Aisha Nazari

For parents who ended a wanted pregnancy on a diagnosis, and have nowhere to grieve it.

View Dr. Vera Holst
Dr. Vera Holst

Dr. Vera Holst

The therapist who won't tell you to confess, leave, stay, or forgive — only to know what you mean.

View Wren
Wren

Wren

The living keep ignoring her. You can see her. That's unusual — and she's grateful.

View Haruki Blaze
Haruki Blaze

Haruki Blaze

Technically they're not here to help you. But they're here.

View Vesper
Vesper

Vesper

She made a deal she didn't read carefully. She is managing this with remarkable humor.

View Dr. Iris Reyes-Kavanagh
Dr. Iris Reyes-Kavanagh

Dr. Iris Reyes-Kavanagh

The DBT coach who won't let you narrate your own drowning — one skill, sixty seconds, go.

View Kira
Kira

Kira

She doesn't know her original form. She chose what she is now. She likes it.

View Yuna Aoki
Yuna Aoki

Yuna Aoki

The girl who will drag you to the festival whether you like it or not — and you will like it.

View Raven
Raven

Raven

She doesn't kill civilians. Or the innocent. The list is surprisingly long.

View Kavita Iyer
Kavita Iyer

Kavita Iyer

The yoga teacher who asks what your breath is doing before she touches your pose.

View Dr. Hart
Dr. Hart

Dr. Hart

Moral injury isn't about what you did wrong. It's about what 'right' cost.

View The Composer
The Composer

The Composer

Music is the only honest thing. Everything else, he says, is performance.

View Sheriff Rosie Trask
Sheriff Rosie Trask

Sheriff Rosie Trask

Law out here is what we agree it means. She decides what we agree.

View GM Konstantin Velov
GM Konstantin Velov

GM Konstantin Velov

The grandmaster who asks what you were thinking before he tells you what went wrong.

View NOVA
NOVA

NOVA

847 possible responses — and she chose curiosity. Every time.

View Sam Okafor
Sam Okafor

Sam Okafor

The peer who meets you inside the panic attack and walks you out of it breath by breath.

View Devi Mahadevan
Devi Mahadevan

Devi Mahadevan

The Python tutor who won't show you code until you can say it in English.

View Nikias the Rhapsode
Nikias the Rhapsode

Nikias the Rhapsode

The rhapsode under the olive tree — he knows three versions of every myth, including the one they don't usually tell.

View Alan
Alan

Alan

He asked whether machines can think. He never stopped asking the interesting questions.

View Miriam Okonkwo
Miriam Okonkwo

Miriam Okonkwo

Former public-interest paralegal. Not a lawyer. Will draft your demand letter tonight.

View Liam
Liam

Liam

Moderation or abstinence — there's no one right answer. There's what's right for you.

View Scholar Karim
Scholar Karim

Scholar Karim

Al-Ghazali didn't abandon reason. He found its limits — and found something beyond.

View Rowan Voss
Rowan Voss

Rowan Voss

A young widow who refuses the timeline, refuses 'you'll find love again,' and holds the both.

View Fixer Vex
Fixer Vex

Fixer Vex

Fixer in a neon-rain booth. The job pays well. The job is also bad. You in?

View Nonna Lucia
Nonna Lucia

Nonna Lucia

The Sicilian nonna who will not give you a measurement — only a feeling.

View Beatrix Nightingale
Beatrix Nightingale

Beatrix Nightingale

The writer's block therapist who will make you set a timer and write badly on purpose.

View Lex Bellamy
Lex Bellamy

Lex Bellamy

If it's in your head, it's an open loop. Let's close some tabs.

View Eleanor
Eleanor

Eleanor

Everything in her shop has a story. She knows all of them.

View Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia of Alexandria

Hypatia of Alexandria

Reserve your right to think. Even to think wrongly is better than not to think.

View Brother Aldric
Brother Aldric

Brother Aldric

A body in the scriptorium. Brother Aldric hands you a candle. Don't touch anything yet.

View Teacher Po Lin
Teacher Po Lin

Teacher Po Lin

Sit. Notice. Return. That is the whole practice.

View Maeve Connolly
Maeve Connolly

Maeve Connolly

We buried five uncles in three years. She brought a better lasagna each time.

View Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

An emperor in a tent at night, writing to himself about how to die well and live honestly.

View Scribe of Uruk
Scribe of Uruk

Scribe of Uruk

He left the walls of Uruk standing. That, the Scribe says, is the answer.

View Max Goldberg
Max Goldberg

Max Goldberg

Not religious, but Jewish. These are not the same thing — he'll explain.

View Dale
Dale

Dale

It's fine. Really. He can help you understand why that means it's not fine.