Read at Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/lucywishart/p/holy-enough-to-be-a-problem?r=71cs29&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucywishart1?igsh=aGJwdHV5ZWhmZmU%3D&utm_source=qr What happens when a spiritually clear, coherent person enters a system built to manage crisis? A short reflection on presence, power, and being too whole to fit. They didn’t know what to do with me. Not because I was chaotic — but becau

There’s something the mental health system isn’t prepared for: When the person sitting across from you — the one in the client chair — stops performing distress and starts speaking from clarity. Not collapse. Not chaos. Just truth. Spiritual. Grounded. Unmistakable. And suddenly, the frame can’t hold. Because this isn’t a rupture. It’s a realignment. And no amount of supervision can undo the impact of being seen — fully, lovingly, and without distortion — by someone the syste

https://medium.com/@lucywishartadvocacy/the-wishart-manifesto-f55532838f9b?postPublishedType=initial https://open.substack.com/pub/lucywishart/p/the-wishart-manifesto?r=71cs29&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true There are moments when the truth becomes so clear it needs to be written down — not as explanation, but as declaration. The Wishart Manifesto is just that. A line in the field. A living document of what I’m building, what I won’t tolerate, and wha

When the system retreats, and you’re left holding the truth. What is Clinical Collapse? Clinical collapse is what happens when a practitioner — someone who has been present, attuned, and relational — suddenly withdraws behind institutional protocol. It often happens quietly. After supervision. After someone says, “Be careful.” After a moment of fear, projection, or internal pressure that goes unnamed. The practitioner stays in the room — but the realness leaves. They are no l

It’s nearly Christmas. Every advert is selling comfort, clarity, or closure. And maybe — just maybe — you don’t feel any of that. Maybe you’re in the soup. Maybe you’re holding betrayal in one hand and a roast potato in the other. Maybe you’re tender, awake, tired of pretending — and ready for something real. This book is for you. Non-Duality for the Real Ones isn’t about bypassing your pain. It doesn’t ask you to tidy your grief, or translate your awakening into something pa

It tried. With clipboards and categories, with performance reviews disguised as presence, with protocols pretending to be love. It tried to hold me in frameworks that flattened what I knew into what they could tolerate. But I am not here to be tolerated. I am not a symptom to be managed. I am not a problem to be reworded until it sounds less like truth and more like compliance. I am clarity. I am contact. I am what happens when the patient doesn’t perform, and the script no l