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Cameron Orr

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The Third Path between Escape & Endurance.
I map psychological traps that keep self aware people stuck.
I help you harmonise the contradiction.

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This is Option C.

Not optimism.
Not resignation.

But a third path for those who’ve tried every other way to survive themselves.

I built this for those who don’t want more hope —
they want language.

#OptionC
#ShadowIntegration
#IdentityWork
#EmotionalIntelligence
#RememberingSelf by @cam0.raw

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9 months ago

This isn’t a success story.
It’s a story about surviving myself.

Every dream I chased was just a softer way of saying:
I don’t feel safe here.

I grew up misunderstood — loud heart, quiet voice.

The world told me to be strong,
but strength without softness became self-sabotage.

I broke bones to feel something real.
I built muscle over memory.
I called endurance healing.

Then life took everything that wasn’t me —
and left me with silence.

Bali became the mirror.

The stillness.
The laughter.
The friends who found me when I stopped performing.

Community.
Sunlight.
Movement.
Freedom.

Healing wasn’t a straight line —
it was a spiral.

I learned that art could be prayer.
That storytelling could be medicine.

And that the boy who wanted to be a pirate and a police officer
was really just trying to save himself.

Now I create from the scar, not in spite of it.

This isn’t the end of the story —
it’s the part where I finally started living it.

#mystory #embraceyourauthenticity #mylifestory #characterdevelopment #spiritualawakening #egodeath by @cam0.raw

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a year ago

I don’t offer insight.
I offer containment.

A steady presence where nothing in you needs to be edited, rushed, or fixed —
but nothing gets indulged, bypassed, or left unchallenged.

My work is for people who think deeply, feel intensely,
and still find themselves circling the same inner tensions.

Not because they’re broken —
but because they’ve never been held clearly enough
for truth to land without collapse or defence.

Poetry opens the door.
Language builds the structure.
Presence is what makes it safe to stay.

This isn’t motivation.
This isn’t catharsis.

It’s learning how to stand inside yourself
without shrinking, performing, or hardening.

This work is for a moment in the soul.

• Leaders who feel internally divided
• People who learned control before trust
• Those who hold others easily but struggle to hold themselves
• High-integrity people facing quiet, private decisions
• Anyone who knows the old way no longer works — but won’t rush the next

Not escape.
Not endurance.

Presence — and a third way forward.

Substack: optionc.substack.com
Website: Theoptionc.com

#OptionC #ShadowWork #SelfRemembering #InnerAuthority #EmotionalClarity by @cam0.raw

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7 months ago

Something landed today, and it’s a spiral I’ve been on for a long time.

It starts with learning how to survive. That matures into people-pleasing. Then it becomes trying to save people. Then trying to change the world. Then trying to guide the people you love.

Somewhere in there it turns into an expansive form of self-love, and you want your loved ones to come with you. So you guide them. Sometimes with a gentle hand, sometimes by force.

Now I’ve arrived at the end of one road and the beginning of another. What does it mean to truly listen? To speak knowing your words are there not only to express, but to light your own path truthfully? To not be a warden, but to be an eye?

To be curious inside a question is to listen with precision. To listen is to ask. To listen is to see. To listen is to feel. To listen is to be here with what is.

It de-centers you. And in that I’ve found another depth of service, and an even more grounded home within myself.

What do you want to be heard? Drop it in the comments, use a GIF if you wanna keep it simple. by @cam0.raw

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3 days ago

This is what a big brother does to protect his sister, and the women of the world.

For me, sophisticated avoidance was the moment I declared that my emotions, my internal fire, my passion, were destructive. That they deserved to be caged and fully restricted to protect the people around me, and my future.

From the outside, it looked like arrival. Maturity. A shift that seemed to be serving me.

But it compounded into a detached sense of self, and a narrative I enforced constantly. When I felt passion, it usually landed in a secondary emotion: anger. And anger was bad, or wrong, or destructive. So it became something to manage or dissipate.

That never took me back to where it started: the initial want, the injustice, the thing that triggered the feeling. Instead, I identified with the whole process as wrong.

That’s what fed my isolation and a martyred experience of my own life.

How can you argue with it after such a tangible event, that affirms your rawness is the problem.

But now I understand the difference between containment and restraint. by @cam0.raw

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6 days ago

People are weird man, especially when they try to be normal.

We are also weird when we allow our weirdness to take the drivers seat.

Either way we’re weird.

Contradictions, small & big, surviving the very way that we’ve asked to live.

Embracing the ordinary as the spectacle that you are.

I’m learning each day that ultimately I want to use my awareness & intelligence to move with wild compassion and unconditional trust.

What moves within me tries it’s very best to isolate me, protecting my energy, serving my capacity to see rather than be planted on my feet amidst community.

It’s courageous to be with people, to misunderstand people, to love people.

I am grateful,

I am steady,

I am learning,

I am love,

I am.

If you didn’t notice I won at mini golf and I will not let anyone live it down 😎! by @cam0.raw

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7 days ago

What are we keeping track for? Why are we counting?

No matter what number we land on, it will still need one more. Same category, or a shift in what we do with our participation, it always involves movement.

Imagine the want moves further from us. That affects us, psychologically and emotionally, right now. But when it moves closer, that can bring unforeseen circumstances too. If we got what we wanted sooner than intended, it could become a burden instead of a gift.

That’s why the question is worth asking daily. It reveals your hand: why you get up in the morning and do what you do, and the expectations and agenda you bring to the moment.

It’s like wanting to know how long the bus will be when you’re going to wait for it anyway. We call it peace of mind. But when you’re on a run and you know how much you have left, you start estimating and predicting your energy and whether you’ll make it. That opens a whole dialogue that doesn’t help your participation in the way that matters most: being present with yourself. by @cam0.raw

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9 days ago

Most of us have a small dispute. Something doesn’t go to plan, life challenges us, and in the middle of the conflict we rush. We threaten to put the house up for sale.

We forget what the house is for. It holds everything we want, and the essence of a house is to hold life. There was always going to be motion inside it.

The moment you threaten to sell what houses your aliveness, you open a negotiation, and it’s a destructive one. The whole system stops feeling safe. Every part of you now has a bigger problem than whatever it stands for: it has to question what holds it. That’s where the deep identity problems start.

A few contradictory voices is one level. Deciding you want to quieten all of them is a bigger problem. And the bigger problem isn’t the debate. It’s that you’ve classified the problem as you.

From there, there are two exits. You sell the house to someone else and end up assimilating a person who isn’t you. Or you open it up to demolition, and then you have to rebuild from the wreckage, daily.

So integration isn’t only aliveness, or taking up more of the space that’s yours. It’s being firm, with a self-understanding that doesn’t waver while the furniture moves and the parts disagree.

The you that holds is what makes aliveness possible, and what lets you keep moving through life. by @cam0.raw

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14 days ago

You know turning back isn’t an option,

Staying still is an option you’re trying to live with and it’s eating away at you.

The only Option left is C, to step forward from your truth and let it cost you. by @cam0.raw

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2 months ago

Most of us use words every single day without ever being in our bodies while we say them. We live almost entirely in the mind. Even the people who are genuinely in touch with their own sensitivity often carry an intensity that, without language to steward it, quietly distorts the very truth they’re trying to feel.

That’s what wordsmithing actually does. It creates a bridge to the parts of ourselves we don’t want to look at, the parts we’ve never given a clear shape. Without that bridge, we dishonour something fundamental. There’s a link, a specific moment, where the connection breaks between our capacity to hold our entire existence at once. Our past. What we actually want. What we ache for in a future that’s really only ever happening now. And our relationship to the fact that we’re here at all, on this planet, inside a universe we don’t understand, that’s absurd and miraculous at the same time, and we’re somehow part of it.

It’s only once that chain is unbroken, once we can meet all of it clearly, that we get close to the nearest thing to heaven available to us. Truth.

From there, language stops being the point. It becomes the ground you stand on so you can actually move from what you are, and be present with it, because that’s as far as your control ever really goes.

There’s a reason there are this many people on the planet. There’s this much poetry inside every single act, this many ways, internal and external, to meet the moment. So instead of worrying about what was only ever someone else’s design to notice, the only person you actually need to meet, deeply, is yourself.

I think language is what makes that possible.

But the second you have it, the framework, the words, the shape, all that’s actually left is to move. To live. To find out.

That part is a mystery I can’t promise you the shape of.

But it’s the thing that gives my life the most meaning, helping someone actually get there.

The link in my bio holds 2 FREE documents, one for the mind that consists of 7 frameworks you can apply to your life right now. As well as one for the heart, where I share my poems and stories that tap into our humanity. by @cam0.raw

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17 days ago

It’s almost funny. You wake up with a bunged-up nose or a sore throat, on a day you’d normally feel ready for, and suddenly you’re thinking back to how good you felt last week. Why does every bit of resistance send us back to a moment we’re not in?

I don’t think that’s appreciation. It’s longing. We’re wishing for the body that could meet the demand, or waiting to feel better so we can keep moving toward something later. We’re thinking back to a state that would let us use the tool.

That’s what stops the relationship from being harmonious. I don’t think your body is just a tool. It’s an instrument, and you build a relationship with the music, not only the process of playing it. Even while you’re learning, you’re inside the experience of the instrument. There’s no moment you’re not you. You can’t put yourself down.

So when you hear yourself creaking out of tune, try not to expect the same output.

Tend to yourself. Not so you can play again. For the sake of tending to yourself. by @cam0.raw

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19 days ago

The body that holds is just as true as what it expresses.

Expectation is a killer of gratitude. 🙏🏼

Your fire is immense but you live like a candle 🕯️

Who knew being right could feel so wrong. 🤷🏻‍♂️

What happens when you look within and you don’t like the answers?

Give your spirit room to stretch in.

Welcome home. 🏠 by @cam0.raw

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18 days ago