# obstacle (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover obstacle. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Only Way Out Is Through: Grief as Transformation](https://linneabutler.substack.com/p/the-only-way-out-is-through-grief) _2026-08-13 · Linnea Butler ✨ · How Healing Happens_ Grief isn't just for loss. It's the price of transformation of old beliefs, lost opportunities, and even a world in upheaval. Discover grief as initiation to freedom. ## [Under the hood of a Gleam test-framework](https://markuseliasson.se/article/under-the-hood-of-a-gleam-test-framework) _2026-08-07 · Markus Eliasson_ During spring and summer I have been busy building a small test-framework in Gleam. Let's open the hood and see how it is designed, and why I designed it the way I did. Hopefully this can inspire you to try out Gleam, Garanti or building your own thing. ## [Guilt-Driven Development](https://markuseliasson.se/article/guilt-driven-development) _2026-08-03 · Markus Eliasson_ A few weeks ago, the day before Midsummer, I went on my summer holiday. I merged my last pull requests and shut down my computer, looking forward to a few weeks of relaxing. Come Midsummer morning, I checked my work emails 1 and I noticed that a failure had been reported earlier that day for one of the services I maintain. 1. Maybe a bad habit, but I tend to at least skim the subject lines while… ## [The Obstacle IS the Path](https://linneabutler.substack.com/p/the-obstacle-is-the-path) _2026-07-30 · Linnea Butler ✨ · How Healing Happens_ Avoiding discomfort makes your world smaller, not safer. A therapist's look at why the obstacle you're dodging is usually the one meant to teach you. ## [Practice Guide: the Obstacle as Teacher](https://linneabutler.substack.com/p/practice-guide-obstacle-as-teacher) _2026-07-30 · Linnea Butler ✨ · How Healing Happens_ A companion to "The Obstacle Is the Path," for leaning into what you'd rather avoid, and discerning the difference between an edge and a harm. ## [Effort, the illusion of value](https://markuseliasson.se/article/effort-illusion-of-value) _2026-07-27 · Markus Eliasson_ I think the industry is acting drunk at the moment. Carried away with how easy it is to produce thousands of lines of code, and mistaking this for value. ## [Same Wound, Deeper Layer: The Spiral Path of Complex Trauma Healing](https://linneabutler.substack.com/p/the-spiral-path-of-healing-complex-trauma) _2026-07-16 · Linnea Butler ✨ · How Healing Happens_ We never step in the same river twice, and we never encounter the exact same wound twice either. When a "healed" wound shows up again, it means we're ready to heal the next layer. ## [When the Body Tells the Story](https://linneabutler.substack.com/p/when-the-body-tells-the-story-part-4-chloes-journey) _2026-07-02 · Linnea Butler ✨ · How Healing Happens_ Learning to decode the language of the body in Complex Trauma ## [Practice Guide: Beyond EMDR — What You Need to Know About Healing Complex Trauma](https://linneabutler.substack.com/p/beyond-emdr-framework-healing-complex-trauma) _2026-06-24 · Linnea Butler ✨ · How Healing Happens_ Includes structured practices for nervous system regulation, parts work and integration ## [The Patriarchy Lives in Me Too](https://linneabutler.substack.com/p/internalized-patriarchy-women) _2026-06-11 · Linnea Butler ✨ · How Healing Happens_ How women inherit the broken masculine without realizing it, and what it takes to call ourselves home ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FSiBlZcGIdGj) _2026-06-11 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [When Women Speak about Patriarchy](https://linneabutler.substack.com/p/when-women-speak-about-patriarchy) _2026-05-28 · Linnea Butler ✨ · How Healing Happens_ Awakening to patriarchy's cost and what it asks of all of us ## [Practice Guide: Recognizing Patriarchal Wounds and Reclaiming Wholeness](https://linneabutler.substack.com/p/guide-to-recognizing-patriarchal-wounds) _2026-05-28 · Linnea Butler ✨ · How Healing Happens_ The patriarchy harms us all and this guide is meant for all genders to understand the wound and find our way back to wholeness ## [The Science and Spirit of Healing: You Don’t Have to Choose](https://linneabutler.substack.com/p/you-dont-have-to-choose-the-science-spirit-of-healing) _2026-05-21 · Linnea Butler ✨ · How Healing Happens_ The Science and Spirit of How Healing Happens: For the analytical mind and the spiritual heart ## [Type-safe i18n in Gleam](https://markuseliasson.se/article/type-safe-i18n-in-gleam) _2026-04-23 · Markus Eliasson_ I wanted to add translations to a small Gleam project I am working on. The type-safety and pattern matching in Gleam helped me make a solution that I am pretty happy with. ## [Quarter - my time-tracker. Rewritten. Again.](https://markuseliasson.se/article/meet-quarter) _2026-03-24 · Markus Eliasson_ I have been busy rewriting the UI for Quarter in yet another language. I am quite happy with the new look and feel, see for yourself and why not try it out! ## [Gleam a lovely little language](https://markuseliasson.se/article/gleam-a-lovely-language) _2026-01-13 · Markus Eliasson_ When was the last time you programmed without using an if-statement? Ok, what about a for-loop? Recently I have been digging into the Gleam programming language. A small functional language that, as you probably guessed, neither has if-statements nor for-loops. And it has been a lovely experience. ## [Going Indie](https://markuseliasson.se/article/going-indie) _2026-01-08 · Markus Eliasson_ I finally got around to delete my GitHub Pages site and set up my own site. Why? Because I want to keep the web open and free for everyone. ## [On Having a Body](https://forgettingtheself.substack.com/p/on-having-a-body) _2025-05-20 · Sarah Whiteside · Forgetting the Self_ Series: Divergent Obstacles, Divergent Strengths ## [Monotropism and Meditation](https://forgettingtheself.substack.com/p/monotropism-and-meditation) _2025-04-29 · Sarah Whiteside · Forgetting the Self_ Series: Divergent Obstacles, Divergent Gifts ## [Rerelease: Thin Slices](https://forgettingtheself.substack.com/p/rerelease-thin-slices-fa2) _2025-04-18 · Sarah Whiteside · Forgetting the Self_ Part Two of an award-winning essay on neurodivergent experiences of education and healthcare ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/y9HItJoPUgdo) _2025-04-18 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [Rerelease: Thin Slices](https://forgettingtheself.substack.com/p/rerelease-thin-slices) _2025-04-02 · Sarah Whiteside · Forgetting the Self_ I’m working hard on writing a book proposal right now, so I’m pausing my current series on neurodivergence and meditation to focus on that. ## [A test-data builder](https://markuseliasson.se/article/a-test-data-builder) _2025-03-25 · Markus Eliasson_ A while back I built a test-data builder for one of the projects I am working on. Now, after using it for some time I really think it simplifies and improves our tests, while also helping us to write new tests faster. This article will guide you through how to implement one for yourself. ## [Habit Formation and 'Non Doing' in Meditation](https://forgettingtheself.substack.com/p/habit-formation-and-non-doing-in) _2025-03-18 · Sarah Whiteside · Forgetting the Self_ Series: Divergent Obstacles, Divergent Gifts ## [Emotion and Meditation](https://forgettingtheself.substack.com/p/emotion-and-meditation) _2025-03-05 · Sarah Whiteside · Forgetting the Self_ Series: Divergent Obstacles, Divergent Gifts ## [Don’t round twice](https://markuseliasson.se/article/dont-round-twice) _2025-02-22 · Markus Eliasson_ When debugging what seemed to be a rounding error, I learned a surprising thing about the way .NET round decimal values. ## [Thoughts in Meditation](https://forgettingtheself.substack.com/p/thoughts-in-meditation) _2025-02-18 · Sarah Whiteside · Forgetting the Self_ Series: Divergent Obstacles, Divergent Gifts ## ['Sitting Still' in Meditation](https://forgettingtheself.substack.com/p/sitting-still-in-meditation) _2025-02-04 · Sarah Whiteside · Forgetting the Self_ Series: Divergent Obstacles, Divergent Gifts ## [Divergent Obstacles, Divergent Gifts](https://forgettingtheself.substack.com/p/divergent-obstacles-divergent-gifts) _2025-01-21 · Sarah Whiteside · Forgetting the Self_ adapting meditation for our own minds and bodies ## [Necessary Fictions](https://forgettingtheself.substack.com/p/necessary-fictions) _2025-01-07 · Sarah Whiteside · Forgetting the Self_ Identity, Neurodivergence and Meditation ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/TumP2OY1C4VC) _2025-01-07 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Guide Comments](https://markuseliasson.se/article/guide-comments) _2024-09-06 · Markus Eliasson_ Code comments is a subjective topic in a world of collaboration. What is superfluous for some might be helpful for others. Personally, I come to like something referred to as guide comments.