Ryan Puusaari
@ryanpuusaari.bsky.social
Leadership is clarity under pressure.
What Leadership Demands
Uncertainty exposes your internal weather. Clarity grows when you refuse to abandon yourself in that storm.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Leadership is clarity under pressure.
Anger fades when you stop trying to outrun it and start listening to what it tried to protect. That’s when your life begins to shift.
Loving Her Had Done Something to Me
The first tear surprised me.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Anger fades when you stop trying to outrun it and start listening to what it tried to protect. That’s when your life begins to shift.
You learned early that love could vanish mid-sentence. That’s why you study tone like scripture and body language like survival.
I Hear The Goodbye Before You
Vulnerability feels risky when your past linked openness with harm. Guarding yourself kept you alive and easing that guard will draw on the same courage that carried you this far.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
You learned early that love could vanish mid-sentence. That’s why you study tone like scripture and body language like survival.
Peace arrives the moment you stop negotiating your worth.
The Day I Fired My Doubt
Peace arrives when you stop turning your worth into sacrifice. When the mask drops, your body knows it's home again, even if others miss the shift.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Peace arrives the moment you stop negotiating your worth.
Some people mistake your calm for permission.
Your Silence Isn’t Consent
When people treat your calm as consent, they edit your story without permission. Naming your discomfort restores authorship. Your body holds the draft; your words bring it into the room.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Some people mistake your calm for permission.
Despair grows when imagination forgets it has options.
Despair Loves A Closed Room
Despair rewrites thought so every path ends the same. Name one new truth, and the mind begins to move again. That small shift is how freedom starts.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Despair grows when imagination forgets it has options.
You find it when you step into the place your nerves keep guarding.
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
You find it when you step into the place your nerves keep guarding.
Loneliness rewires you to stop reaching out because nothing reaches back. You learn to live on crumbs of comfort and call it normal.
Even the Fridge Was Lonely
Loneliness rewires you to stop reaching out because nothing reaches back. You learn to live on crumbs of comfort and call it normal.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Loneliness rewires you to stop reaching out because nothing reaches back. You learn to live on crumbs of comfort and call it normal.
Self-trust grows quietly in the absence of witnesses.
Trust Built With Nobody Watching
Life gives feedback long before it gives clarity. Each time you move through a hard season without abandoning yourself, that lesson lands deeper than any advice could.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Self-trust grows quietly in the absence of witnesses.
What feels like rejection often protects you from repetition.
Rejection Saved Me From Myself
We cling to certain stories about ourselves because the alternative would mean admitting how often we returned to the same harm. Rejection can threaten that story, which is why it feels so painful.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
What feels like rejection often protects you from repetition.
Every moment recreates the world through attention. The act of noticing is the act of birth.
I Missed My Own Life
A scar records. Attention turns that record into instruction. Each time we observe without bracing, something new gets written.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Every moment recreates the world through attention. The act of noticing is the act of birth.
Healing teaches your body a new language. This is a lesson from my newsletter, Healing Thoughts. If you need a companion while you unlearn survival, it’s there. #healingthoughts
October 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Healing teaches your body a new language. This is a lesson from my newsletter, Healing Thoughts. If you need a companion while you unlearn survival, it’s there. #healingthoughts
Regret fades slower when you keep proving it right.
The Habit of Hurting Myself Twice
Regret hides beneath performance. It wears improvement like a mask. The moment you stop performing for forgiveness, the shadow finally tells the truth about what it wanted all along.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Regret fades slower when you keep proving it right.
and they swore no one near them would ever have to. #healingthoughts #quoteoftheday
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
and they swore no one near them would ever have to. #healingthoughts #quoteoftheday
Some of us didn’t learn boundaries. We learned silence. We thought disappearing was how you kept the peace.
I Trained Myself To Vanish
Speaking your truth regulates the nervous system. The body trusts what it can say out loud and survive. A small sentence can mark the edge where silence used to stand alone.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Some of us didn’t learn boundaries. We learned silence. We thought disappearing was how you kept the peace.
Some places teach you to listen for danger before it arrives. You learn to make yourself small enough to stay unseen. What begins as survival eventually starts to look like personality.
Where I Wasn’t Raised
Some places teach you to listen for danger before it arrives. You learn to make yourself small enough to stay unseen. What begins as survival eventually starts to look like personality.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Some places teach you to listen for danger before it arrives. You learn to make yourself small enough to stay unseen. What begins as survival eventually starts to look like personality.
Control disguised itself as love, and I kept tightening the leash to prove I was loyal. #healingthoughts #love #quoteoftheday #healwithme #quote
October 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Control disguised itself as love, and I kept tightening the leash to prove I was loyal. #healingthoughts #love #quoteoftheday #healwithme #quote
The idea that you’re too late, too old, and there’s no point in trying holds you back more than anything else ever could.
Too Late Was A Lie
The next version of you doesn’t appear on a clean slate. It forms while you’re still shaking. Start anyway, and let today be part of that entrance.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The idea that you’re too late, too old, and there’s no point in trying holds you back more than anything else ever could.
Every person teaches you something about what you will no longer abandon in yourself.
October 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Every person teaches you something about what you will no longer abandon in yourself.
if that kind of peace is what you’re searching for, you’d probably like what i write in Healing Thoughts. it’s where i put the pieces i never thought would fit again. #healingthoughts
October 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
if that kind of peace is what you’re searching for, you’d probably like what i write in Healing Thoughts. it’s where i put the pieces i never thought would fit again. #healingthoughts
do you ever realize you haven’t been anxious in hours and immediately ruin it by thinking about that.
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
do you ever realize you haven’t been anxious in hours and immediately ruin it by thinking about that.
I looked for grace and found accountability instead.
Forgiveness Wasn’t The Fix
Tears release pressure. Change releases patterns. If today asks for both, start with the one that steadies your hands, then move the chair back to where it belongs.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I looked for grace and found accountability instead.
if that kind of peace is what you’re searching for, you’d probably like what i write in Healing Thoughts. it’s where i put the pieces i never thought would fit again. 🕯️ #healingthoughts
October 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
if that kind of peace is what you’re searching for, you’d probably like what i write in Healing Thoughts. it’s where i put the pieces i never thought would fit again. 🕯️ #healingthoughts
do you ever wake up before your alarm and feel like you’ve cheated the system. i lay there staring at the ceiling like a man who just won a minor emotional lottery.
October 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
do you ever wake up before your alarm and feel like you’ve cheated the system. i lay there staring at the ceiling like a man who just won a minor emotional lottery.