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Lucid State

@lucid-state

articles: 10
total claps: 356
top claps: 305
avg read: 4.1 min
paywalled: 2
active: 2017-02-27 → 2026-05-29

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🍳 · Food & Cooking · 2 CUL · Culture & Media · 2 LIT · Literature & Writing · 2 🚀 · Self Improvement · 2 💭 · Philosophy of Spirit · 1 🧘 · Spirituality · 1 EDU · Education & Learning · 1 ✊ · Equality & Identity · 1

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#life-lessons ·7 #self ·2 #addiction ·1 #drugs ·1 #abuse ·1 #change ·1 #perceptions-and-reality ·1 #perspective-shift ·1 #personal-development ·1 #storytelling ·1

GL Glenna Gill · Lucid State

How People Change During Drug Addiction

Understanding the impact of substance abuse on behavioral changes

Jan 21, 2023 · 4 min read · 305 claps paywalled #addiction #drugs #self

HUM LIF

DO Donn Durante · Lucid State

The Gold in the Gaps: What Rest Days Taught Me About Pattern Recognition

I was cleaning my kitchen this morning when the connections started forming. Not forcing them — just noticing them emerge in that quiet…

Dec 08, 2025 · 4 min read · 44 claps #pattern-recognition #writers-on-writing #kintsugi

The Gold in the Gaps: What Rest Days Taught Me About Pattern Recognition

HUM LIF

MI Michelle Monet · Lucid State

TEN NEW WORDS I’VE NEVER HEARD OF!

It all started with ‘Harissa’

Feb 27, 2017 · 2 min read · 3 claps #food #vocabulary #learning

HUM MED SPR

AL Alecia Kennedy · Lucid State

What If We Really Believed That Today is A New Day?

How would it change our lives?

Sep 21, 2022 · 3 min read · 2 claps paywalled #spirituality #self #mental-health

What If We Really Believed That Today is A New Day?

DO Donn Durante · Lucid State

I Believed “Perception Is Reality” for Twenty Years. I Was Half Right.

Somewhere around 2000, I was an assistant manager at a menswear retail store in the Chicago suburbs when a salesperson from another…

May 24, 2026 · 4 min read · 1 claps #perceptions-and-reality #perspective-shift #life-lessons

I Believed “Perception Is Reality” for Twenty Years. I Was Half Right.

ECO LIF HUM MDA

DO Donn Durante · Lucid State

What Exhaustion Reveals: A Note on Physical Foundations and Who We Actually Become

Written from the middle of it.

May 27, 2026 · 4 min read · 1 claps #self-improvement #leadership #burnout

What Exhaustion Reveals: A Note on Physical Foundations and Who We Actually Become

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DO Donn Durante · Lucid State

We’ve Been Measuring the Wrong Thing

The first time I got laid off, twelve months passed before I felt settled again.

Apr 05, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #life-lessons #change

HUM LIF

DO Donn Durante · Lucid State

Where All Three Slowed Down

I wasn’t looking for a pattern. I was working on a manuscript and three stories I’d known for decades suddenly showed up at the edges of…

May 29, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #personal-development #storytelling #resilience

DO Donn Durante · Lucid State

The Third Move

This past week at Men’s Wearhouse, prom season arrived all at once.

Mar 30, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #life-lessons #career-change #decision-making

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DO Donn Durante · Lucid State

Multiple Paths to Fulfillment: Your “Just Right” Isn’t Mine

I have a colleague named Jamal who thrives in chaos. Open-plan office, constant interruptions, six projects running simultaneously. He…

Nov 01, 2025 · 6 min read · 0 claps #goldilocks #balanced-life #cultural-diversity