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Behind the Tactics: What Survival Actually Looks Like

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Cody Taymore
Nov 15, 2025
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I woke up one morning this week and sobbed for two hours straight. Couldn’t stop. Had to call into work.

That’s not a metaphor. That’s not “feeling sad.” That was my body finally processing shit I’ve been holding back for two years because I had to keep functioning.

You get the tactical posts. The numbered lists. The frameworks that work. But I don’t talk much about what it actually costs to survive while building those systems.

So here it is. The full picture.

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