Anthony Rella

Anthony Rella I am a psychotherapist and writer in Seattle, Washington.

"The doubt within me cannot fully relax and let go because that other thing inside me, the part that really wants cool e...
02/24/2026

"The doubt within me cannot fully relax and let go because that other thing inside me, the part that really wants cool experiences, needs someone to mind it. In spite of my most guarded personality, I’ve had moments of being taken advantage of or just confused because parts of me really take these practices too seriously. Sometimes they override my doubt because they want to believe another person knows better than me, or they want to ignore common sense safety because they want to believe magic is so powerful."

https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonyrella/p/banish-doubt-and-eagerness

"When we witness horrors that are beyond the bounds of human morality and propriety, we may need these other-than-human ...
02/19/2026

"When we witness horrors that are beyond the bounds of human morality and propriety, we may need these other-than-human symbols so we can start to name what is happening. But these horrors do not need to be explained by occult rituals or secret conspiracies. It is simply that having so much power and money makes people more and more sociopathic."

https://anthonyrella.substack.com/p/the-shaking-of-heaven

02/04/2026

Her fingers glisten like diamonds, plucking
berries from snarls of thorn and branch,
nestling each in the bowl of apron
that she may bear their sweetness home.

Her starlit body draws the wanderers,
scattered by chaotic night,
establishing each in their own orbit
around that flame whose name is hers.

Her lap enthrones the infant god, falcon
made real from possibility,
the bowl formed by her arms nurtures him whole,
her song foretells battles to come.

"Which finally leads me to the notion that calmness is not the enemy. Calmness within the body—or the nervous system, if...
01/26/2026

"Which finally leads me to the notion that calmness is not the enemy. Calmness within the body—or the nervous system, if you prefer—is not the same as pretending everything is okay. Indeed, pretending tends to make us more anxious, irritable, and brittle over time. True calmness comes with complete acceptance of the situation as it is. Acceptance does not mean, “I am okay with everything that’s happening.” Acceptance is more like, “There is real danger, but if I don’t face it, we won’t ever get through it.” Or, “The world is on fire, but I’m going to show up so that my kids know they are loved.”

Acceptance acknowledges the conditions on the ground. Affirmation is the choice we make within those conditions—what we want to move toward. None of this requires denial of our emotions, but it does invite us to temper their intensity to allow calmness and clarity to steer. "

https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonyrella/p/calmness-is-not-the-enemy

"There is a deeply practical reason to cultivate this kind of being in your body. Aggression and force draws out resista...
01/12/2026

"There is a deeply practical reason to cultivate this kind of being in your body. Aggression and force draws out resistance and counter-force. When you come at someone with hostility, all their base-level defenses come up and their bodies are going to instinctually protect themselves. That instinct often looks like the famous fight, flight, or freeze response, most of which are accompanied by tense muscles, impulsive response, and a mind without the capacity to think through the consequences of one’s actions."

https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonyrella/p/when-you-apply-force-you-draw-resistance

Just a reminder that my spiritual book for magic workers—Slow Magic: Cultivate Lasting Transformation through Spellwork ...
01/05/2026

Just a reminder that my spiritual book for magic workers—Slow Magic: Cultivate Lasting Transformation through Spellwork and Self-Growth is available anywhere you get books, and is also available as an audiobook wherever you get those!

If you’ve read it and loved it, please consider leaving a positive review and tell others!

If you’ve read it and hated it, don’t trouble yourself! You’ve done enough!

I love this book as an expression of hope in the midst of adversity, and an exploration of the gifts, meanings, and mysteries of a magical worldview. It’s also a perfect compliment to the energy of a new year!

"When I went to college in the early 2000s, we spoke often in those critical gender and race theory classes of the ways ...
12/30/2025

"When I went to college in the early 2000s, we spoke often in those critical gender and race theory classes of the ways in which the white male perspective was treated as normal, as central, and all other perspectives treated as aberrations or exceptions. What Savage is tracing is a moment of disruption, in which the white male perspective was forcibly de-centered. But instead of then treating white men as a unique demographic category, with its own sociological reality and systemic pressures that shape their experiences and behaviors, we were mostly blamed for our frustrations and told to stop whining by the left, while the right happily welcomed and nurtured our grievances, offering vengeance and free reign to the most antisocial longings of our hearts."

https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonyrella/p/kicked-out-of-the-center-white-men

Bus stop bunny has a command.
12/18/2025

Bus stop bunny has a command.

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