Dissociation is a feeling of unreality; a fog over consciousness that makes everything, even the self, feel ethereal. A barrier to connection that blocks most everything, leaving your goals, dreams and hopes to merely bleed through the window of mind offering little more than an opaque view of life. Until of course, that window cracks, letting in the cold winds of anxiety, depression and the harshness of a reality that was all but ignored. In this episode I share my current mental state, as well as the poem ‘For As Long As I Have Eyes’ from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author, podcaster and coach. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com