<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Undoctrinated]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reflections from a recovering therapist on questioning inherited beliefs, making room for grief, and finding our way back to ourselves. Through memoir, philosophy, and faith, Undoctrinated explores what it means to live a life we can call our own.]]></description><link>https://undoctrinated.space</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C_CX!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9326522d-b7b2-4917-9158-0ec778c450ae_608x608.png</url><title>Undoctrinated</title><link>https://undoctrinated.space</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:39:50 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://undoctrinated.space/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Patti Lorenzo]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[thelifestylecure@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[thelifestylecure@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[The Lifestyle Cure]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[The Lifestyle Cure]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[thelifestylecure@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[thelifestylecure@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[The Lifestyle Cure]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Space Between Who You Were and Who You're Building]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been practicing professionally for 12 years.]]></description><link>https://undoctrinated.space/p/welcome-to-the-space-between-who</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://undoctrinated.space/p/welcome-to-the-space-between-who</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Lifestyle Cure]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:51:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C_CX!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9326522d-b7b2-4917-9158-0ec778c450ae_608x608.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://undoctrinated.space/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://undoctrinated.space/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>I&#8217;ve been practicing professionally for 12 years.</h2><p>But I&#8217;ve been navigating life for 57.</p><p>Those are two very different credentials &#8212; and honestly, the second one is the reason you&#8217;re here.</p><div><hr></div><p>I&#8217;m a therapist who has spent over a decade watching people heal in spite of the systems designed to help them. Organized healthcare is sterile by design. It measures you, categorizes you, and sends you home with a plan that was built for someone else. I&#8217;ve sat inside that system long enough to know what it can and cannot do &#8212; and I&#8217;ve spent years thinking about what happens in the space it leaves behind.</p><p>What happens there is everything.</p><div><hr></div><p>This newsletter is for adults who are somewhere in the forty-year stretch between 25 and 65 &#8212; which sounds like a wide net until you realize how much living happens in that window. Multiple versions of yourself. Multiple reinventions. Losses you didn&#8217;t see coming and growth you couldn&#8217;t have planned for.</p><p>You&#8217;ve probably done the therapy. Read the books. Downloaded the app. And you&#8217;re still looking for the conversation that goes deeper than validation and further than acceptance.</p><p>That&#8217;s this.</p><p>This is not a space for passive belonging. It&#8217;s a space for active building &#8212; of new habits, new community, new ways of understanding what&#8217;s actually wrong and what&#8217;s actually working. I&#8217;m not here to make you feel better about where you are. I&#8217;m here to think alongside you about where you&#8217;re going.</p><div><hr></div><p>I am, by my own description, an ironic thought leader. Which means I will say the things people don&#8217;t say in polite company. I will ask the questions that don&#8217;t get asked at dinner parties. I believe in healing through community and expansion &#8212; not through clinical distance or curated positivity.</p><p>The conversations here will be open and enriching. They will also require you to go somewhere beyond the surface. If that&#8217;s not what you&#8217;re looking for, no hard feelings. But if you&#8217;ve been waiting for a room where someone finally says the thing &#8212; welcome. Pull up a chair.</p><div><hr></div><p>At the center of everything I do is an idea I call <strong>The Lifestyle Cure</strong>.</p><p>The premise is simple even if the work isn&#8217;t: lifestyle change is the antidote to what ails us. Not medication management. Not another productivity system. A genuine audit of what isn&#8217;t working, an honest accounting of what is, and the intentional building of new habits that restructure your internal infrastructure from the inside out.</p><p>And it all begins with a regulated nervous system &#8212; because that is the literal backbone of the entire human body. You cannot build anything sustainable on top of a dysregulated foundation. We start there. We build from there.</p><div><hr></div><p>Every piece I write is part of the manual. Not a manual I&#8217;m handing you &#8212; a manual we&#8217;re building together, in public, one honest conversation at a time.</p><p>That&#8217;s the work.</p><p>I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re here for it.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>If someone in your life is ready for this kind of conversation, share this with them. The right community finds itself.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://undoctrinated.space/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Patti's Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming soon]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is Undoctrinated.]]></description><link>https://undoctrinated.space/p/coming-soon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://undoctrinated.space/p/coming-soon</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Lifestyle Cure]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:29:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C_CX!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9326522d-b7b2-4917-9158-0ec778c450ae_608x608.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is Undoctrinated.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://undoctrinated.space/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://undoctrinated.space/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>