Anthony
@ace-roll.bsky.social
Note-taker of the human condition.
Blending typewriter keys with inner keys.
I write articles & create visual essays from the margins.
🖋️ ace.roll on Medium
Blending typewriter keys with inner keys.
I write articles & create visual essays from the margins.
🖋️ ace.roll on Medium
Screens show collapse.
Streets show connection.
My new ace.roll visual essay:
Through Screens or Through Streets — about perception, presence, and finding optimism in a noisy world.
Streets show connection.
My new ace.roll visual essay:
Through Screens or Through Streets — about perception, presence, and finding optimism in a noisy world.
December 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Screens show collapse.
Streets show connection.
My new ace.roll visual essay:
Through Screens or Through Streets — about perception, presence, and finding optimism in a noisy world.
Streets show connection.
My new ace.roll visual essay:
Through Screens or Through Streets — about perception, presence, and finding optimism in a noisy world.
Distraction scatters us.
Presence brings us back.
This new visual essay explores how we drift through our days — and how small practices can anchor us again.
Follow @ace.roll for more.
What helps you return to the present when your attention starts slipping?
Presence brings us back.
This new visual essay explores how we drift through our days — and how small practices can anchor us again.
Follow @ace.roll for more.
What helps you return to the present when your attention starts slipping?
December 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Distraction scatters us.
Presence brings us back.
This new visual essay explores how we drift through our days — and how small practices can anchor us again.
Follow @ace.roll for more.
What helps you return to the present when your attention starts slipping?
Presence brings us back.
This new visual essay explores how we drift through our days — and how small practices can anchor us again.
Follow @ace.roll for more.
What helps you return to the present when your attention starts slipping?
Denial feels safe. But it keeps us in place.
Acceptance isn’t the end of change.
It’s the beginning.
New ace.roll visual essay — Clarity Before Change.
#Truth #PersonalGrowth #Clarity
Acceptance isn’t the end of change.
It’s the beginning.
New ace.roll visual essay — Clarity Before Change.
#Truth #PersonalGrowth #Clarity
September 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Denial feels safe. But it keeps us in place.
Acceptance isn’t the end of change.
It’s the beginning.
New ace.roll visual essay — Clarity Before Change.
#Truth #PersonalGrowth #Clarity
Acceptance isn’t the end of change.
It’s the beginning.
New ace.roll visual essay — Clarity Before Change.
#Truth #PersonalGrowth #Clarity
“I’m tired.”
Sometimes that’s true.
Other times, it’s resistance in disguise.
Visual essay: The Thin Line Between Rest and Resistance.
🎞🕯☯️
Sometimes that’s true.
Other times, it’s resistance in disguise.
Visual essay: The Thin Line Between Rest and Resistance.
🎞🕯☯️
September 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“I’m tired.”
Sometimes that’s true.
Other times, it’s resistance in disguise.
Visual essay: The Thin Line Between Rest and Resistance.
🎞🕯☯️
Sometimes that’s true.
Other times, it’s resistance in disguise.
Visual essay: The Thin Line Between Rest and Resistance.
🎞🕯☯️
Even after the mind heals, the habits of survival can linger.
This visual essay is about the “ghost habits” we carry from difficult seasons, and the small, steady steps that help us rewire and return to life as it is now.
#Healing #MentalHealth #Resilience
This visual essay is about the “ghost habits” we carry from difficult seasons, and the small, steady steps that help us rewire and return to life as it is now.
#Healing #MentalHealth #Resilience
August 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Even after the mind heals, the habits of survival can linger.
This visual essay is about the “ghost habits” we carry from difficult seasons, and the small, steady steps that help us rewire and return to life as it is now.
#Healing #MentalHealth #Resilience
This visual essay is about the “ghost habits” we carry from difficult seasons, and the small, steady steps that help us rewire and return to life as it is now.
#Healing #MentalHealth #Resilience
Not all progress is loud.
Sometimes growth loops.
Sometimes it whispers.
But it’s still growth.
🎞️ From the latest ace.roll visual essay
📖 medium.com/@ace.roll
#aceRoll #visualessay #mentalhealth #personaldevelopment
Sometimes growth loops.
Sometimes it whispers.
But it’s still growth.
🎞️ From the latest ace.roll visual essay
📖 medium.com/@ace.roll
#aceRoll #visualessay #mentalhealth #personaldevelopment
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Not all progress is loud.
Sometimes growth loops.
Sometimes it whispers.
But it’s still growth.
🎞️ From the latest ace.roll visual essay
📖 medium.com/@ace.roll
#aceRoll #visualessay #mentalhealth #personaldevelopment
Sometimes growth loops.
Sometimes it whispers.
But it’s still growth.
🎞️ From the latest ace.roll visual essay
📖 medium.com/@ace.roll
#aceRoll #visualessay #mentalhealth #personaldevelopment
☯️ Not Nothing
This one’s for the silent shifts.
The slow work.
The progress no one sees.
#aceroll #growth #selfreflection #neuroscience #healing #tolle
This one’s for the silent shifts.
The slow work.
The progress no one sees.
#aceroll #growth #selfreflection #neuroscience #healing #tolle
August 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
☯️ Not Nothing
This one’s for the silent shifts.
The slow work.
The progress no one sees.
#aceroll #growth #selfreflection #neuroscience #healing #tolle
This one’s for the silent shifts.
The slow work.
The progress no one sees.
#aceroll #growth #selfreflection #neuroscience #healing #tolle
Overthinking is often fear in disguise.
A forecast factory that never turns off.
New ace.roll visual essay: The Forecast Factory
Slow the storm. Reclaim your peace.
A forecast factory that never turns off.
New ace.roll visual essay: The Forecast Factory
Slow the storm. Reclaim your peace.
August 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Overthinking is often fear in disguise.
A forecast factory that never turns off.
New ace.roll visual essay: The Forecast Factory
Slow the storm. Reclaim your peace.
A forecast factory that never turns off.
New ace.roll visual essay: The Forecast Factory
Slow the storm. Reclaim your peace.
🌀 New visual essay
→ When the path loops back
→ It’s not regression
→ It’s recognition
Sometimes the loop is the lesson.
Sometimes the spiral is the path forward.
📖 Inspired by a piece I wrote earlier this year: “When the Path Loops Back” on Medium
#selfgrowth #ace_roll #personaldevelopment
→ When the path loops back
→ It’s not regression
→ It’s recognition
Sometimes the loop is the lesson.
Sometimes the spiral is the path forward.
📖 Inspired by a piece I wrote earlier this year: “When the Path Loops Back” on Medium
#selfgrowth #ace_roll #personaldevelopment
July 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM
🌀 New visual essay
→ When the path loops back
→ It’s not regression
→ It’s recognition
Sometimes the loop is the lesson.
Sometimes the spiral is the path forward.
📖 Inspired by a piece I wrote earlier this year: “When the Path Loops Back” on Medium
#selfgrowth #ace_roll #personaldevelopment
→ When the path loops back
→ It’s not regression
→ It’s recognition
Sometimes the loop is the lesson.
Sometimes the spiral is the path forward.
📖 Inspired by a piece I wrote earlier this year: “When the Path Loops Back” on Medium
#selfgrowth #ace_roll #personaldevelopment
Growth isn’t always loud.
Sometimes it’s a whisper, a return, a quiet spiral inward.
🌀 For anyone doing deep work that doesn’t look like progress on the outside.
#personaldevelopment #selfimprovement #philosophy #mentalhealth #mentalhealthsupport #selfawareness
Sometimes it’s a whisper, a return, a quiet spiral inward.
🌀 For anyone doing deep work that doesn’t look like progress on the outside.
#personaldevelopment #selfimprovement #philosophy #mentalhealth #mentalhealthsupport #selfawareness
July 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Growth isn’t always loud.
Sometimes it’s a whisper, a return, a quiet spiral inward.
🌀 For anyone doing deep work that doesn’t look like progress on the outside.
#personaldevelopment #selfimprovement #philosophy #mentalhealth #mentalhealthsupport #selfawareness
Sometimes it’s a whisper, a return, a quiet spiral inward.
🌀 For anyone doing deep work that doesn’t look like progress on the outside.
#personaldevelopment #selfimprovement #philosophy #mentalhealth #mentalhealthsupport #selfawareness
The lens we carry shapes how we experience everything.
But what happens when we stop living inside the story?
New visual essay: The Lens We Carry
#rewritethestory #truthseeking #visualessay #innerwork
But what happens when we stop living inside the story?
New visual essay: The Lens We Carry
#rewritethestory #truthseeking #visualessay #innerwork
July 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The lens we carry shapes how we experience everything.
But what happens when we stop living inside the story?
New visual essay: The Lens We Carry
#rewritethestory #truthseeking #visualessay #innerwork
But what happens when we stop living inside the story?
New visual essay: The Lens We Carry
#rewritethestory #truthseeking #visualessay #innerwork
🕯 New visual essay from ace.roll:
When Self-Discipline Becomes Self-Punishment
Sometimes what we call strength is really fear in disguise.
This one’s for the ones who never stop.
The ones who need permission to rest.
🔗 Read the full article: medium.com/@ace.roll
#mentalhealth
When Self-Discipline Becomes Self-Punishment
Sometimes what we call strength is really fear in disguise.
This one’s for the ones who never stop.
The ones who need permission to rest.
🔗 Read the full article: medium.com/@ace.roll
#mentalhealth
July 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
🕯 New visual essay from ace.roll:
When Self-Discipline Becomes Self-Punishment
Sometimes what we call strength is really fear in disguise.
This one’s for the ones who never stop.
The ones who need permission to rest.
🔗 Read the full article: medium.com/@ace.roll
#mentalhealth
When Self-Discipline Becomes Self-Punishment
Sometimes what we call strength is really fear in disguise.
This one’s for the ones who never stop.
The ones who need permission to rest.
🔗 Read the full article: medium.com/@ace.roll
#mentalhealth
Temptation isn’t always obvious.
Sometimes it scrolls softly.
This is for anyone who’s been pulled from presences, purpose or peace.
#distraction #mindfulness #selfawareness #visualessay
Sometimes it scrolls softly.
This is for anyone who’s been pulled from presences, purpose or peace.
#distraction #mindfulness #selfawareness #visualessay
July 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Temptation isn’t always obvious.
Sometimes it scrolls softly.
This is for anyone who’s been pulled from presences, purpose or peace.
#distraction #mindfulness #selfawareness #visualessay
Sometimes it scrolls softly.
This is for anyone who’s been pulled from presences, purpose or peace.
#distraction #mindfulness #selfawareness #visualessay
Stillness in the Storm
A visual essay by ace.roll
Not all storms are meant to be outrun.
Some are meant to be felt.
Held.
Moved through—gently, with breath.
Read more at: ace.roll on Medium.
#stillness #laotzu #mindfulness
A visual essay by ace.roll
Not all storms are meant to be outrun.
Some are meant to be felt.
Held.
Moved through—gently, with breath.
Read more at: ace.roll on Medium.
#stillness #laotzu #mindfulness
July 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Stillness in the Storm
A visual essay by ace.roll
Not all storms are meant to be outrun.
Some are meant to be felt.
Held.
Moved through—gently, with breath.
Read more at: ace.roll on Medium.
#stillness #laotzu #mindfulness
A visual essay by ace.roll
Not all storms are meant to be outrun.
Some are meant to be felt.
Held.
Moved through—gently, with breath.
Read more at: ace.roll on Medium.
#stillness #laotzu #mindfulness
Not all harm is loud.
Judgment — especially the quiet kind — chips away at us in silence.
This new visual essay looks at the hidden costs of internalized judgment, and what it means to truly see each other.
Judgment — especially the quiet kind — chips away at us in silence.
This new visual essay looks at the hidden costs of internalized judgment, and what it means to truly see each other.
July 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Not all harm is loud.
Judgment — especially the quiet kind — chips away at us in silence.
This new visual essay looks at the hidden costs of internalized judgment, and what it means to truly see each other.
Judgment — especially the quiet kind — chips away at us in silence.
This new visual essay looks at the hidden costs of internalized judgment, and what it means to truly see each other.
Not all growth is loud.
Some of it whispers.
This one’s for the quiet spiral of becoming.
#innerwork #ace.roll
Some of it whispers.
This one’s for the quiet spiral of becoming.
#innerwork #ace.roll
June 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Not all growth is loud.
Some of it whispers.
This one’s for the quiet spiral of becoming.
#innerwork #ace.roll
Some of it whispers.
This one’s for the quiet spiral of becoming.
#innerwork #ace.roll
Not everything needs to prove itself right away.
The process can be the purpose.
This one’s for the ones still becoming.
#innergrowth #philosophy #selfwork #visualessay
The process can be the purpose.
This one’s for the ones still becoming.
#innergrowth #philosophy #selfwork #visualessay
June 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Not everything needs to prove itself right away.
The process can be the purpose.
This one’s for the ones still becoming.
#innergrowth #philosophy #selfwork #visualessay
The process can be the purpose.
This one’s for the ones still becoming.
#innergrowth #philosophy #selfwork #visualessay
The Siren of Distraction
Not all temptations are loud.
Some just want to pull us away from now.
Carousel from my latest ace.roll essay on Medium.
📖 Read it here: medium.com/@ace.roll
#Presence
Not all temptations are loud.
Some just want to pull us away from now.
Carousel from my latest ace.roll essay on Medium.
📖 Read it here: medium.com/@ace.roll
#Presence
June 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The Siren of Distraction
Not all temptations are loud.
Some just want to pull us away from now.
Carousel from my latest ace.roll essay on Medium.
📖 Read it here: medium.com/@ace.roll
#Presence
Not all temptations are loud.
Some just want to pull us away from now.
Carousel from my latest ace.roll essay on Medium.
📖 Read it here: medium.com/@ace.roll
#Presence
Judgment doesn’t always shout. But it always divides.
It wounds, isolates, and hardens.
This is for anyone trying to stay soft in a sharp world.
🌀 Read it here → medium.com/@ace.roll/th...
#SelfGrowth #EmotionalIntelligence #Compassion #Judgment
It wounds, isolates, and hardens.
This is for anyone trying to stay soft in a sharp world.
🌀 Read it here → medium.com/@ace.roll/th...
#SelfGrowth #EmotionalIntelligence #Compassion #Judgment
June 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Judgment doesn’t always shout. But it always divides.
It wounds, isolates, and hardens.
This is for anyone trying to stay soft in a sharp world.
🌀 Read it here → medium.com/@ace.roll/th...
#SelfGrowth #EmotionalIntelligence #Compassion #Judgment
It wounds, isolates, and hardens.
This is for anyone trying to stay soft in a sharp world.
🌀 Read it here → medium.com/@ace.roll/th...
#SelfGrowth #EmotionalIntelligence #Compassion #Judgment