<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Alexandra Choutko — Journal</title><link>https://blog.alexandrachoutko.com/</link><description>Essays and reflections by Alexandra Choutko.</description><item><title>Self-hatred fueling transformation and other tales of love</title><link>https://blog.alexandrachoutko.com/i-confused-responsibility-with-harshness/</link><guid>https://blog.alexandrachoutko.com/i-confused-responsibility-with-harshness/</guid><description>The hatred fueling my transformation, the need to become someone you can stay with, and learning to change from a place of tenderness.</description></item><item><title>If I am only nice enough…</title><link>https://blog.alexandrachoutko.com/if-i-am-only-nice-enough-my-story/</link><guid>https://blog.alexandrachoutko.com/if-i-am-only-nice-enough-my-story/</guid><description>Recognising confusion as a strategy, owning what I am doing, and discovering the adult seat inside me.</description></item><item><title>Staying harmless through confusion</title><link>https://blog.alexandrachoutko.com/staying-harmless-through-confusion/</link><guid>https://blog.alexandrachoutko.com/staying-harmless-through-confusion/</guid><description>How we confuse ourselves to stay harmless, how the childhood strategy exhausts our lives now, and its collective consequences.</description></item><item><title>If I am only nice enough…</title><link>https://blog.alexandrachoutko.com/if-i-am-only-nice-enough/</link><guid>https://blog.alexandrachoutko.com/if-i-am-only-nice-enough/</guid><description>On the bargains we make for care, the confusion that sustains them, and the responsibility of creating our lives.</description></item></channel></rss>