BEING

This archive holds reflections on relationships, leadership, identity, and the inner narratives that quietly shape how we show up in the world. It’s a space for poetry, essays, and embodied truth-telling—for unlearning what no longer fits, while honoring what always has. Here, creativity is medicine, self-expression is leadership, and presence is the practice. This is your invitation to embrace “Un-Broken Living.” 

Life is Like a Tattoo

Life isn’t watercolor brush strokes — life is the buzz, and bite of a tattoo gun paired with a needle all your own. That no one else will ever know. Sometimes all we notice are the pricks and pokes, and pain they bring. Then you remember that at the end of that need is ink. Driving a bit more color, and detail, to one hell of a masterpiece.

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Thunder

We didn’t realize it then, but something had just rattled our little home. Not a house… a home. A home he and his family gutted, and remodeled, in hopes of this being a nest egg. Little did we know it would become our nest to grow within. A foundation for a life neither one of us thought we would ever have. In a lot of ways, this home has evolved with us. Through every stage of our relationship it has earned a proverbial brownie patch.

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Meet Mac

What’s up?! I’m Mac Brazina—mental health writer, coach, and speaker with a firm belief that no one’s broken, we’re just stories mid-edit. When I’m not deep in session with clients or dismantling stigma one word at a time, you’ll catch me nose-deep in a book, upside down on a yoga mat, or head-banging like it’s my cardio. I live for loud music, real talk, and quality time with my ride-or-die people.

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