# Stephen Hanmer D'Elía JD, LCSW

Essays on trauma, attachment, and power: how nervous systems are shaped by families, institutions, politics, and care. Yale/Columbia-trained therapist and social worker with a human rights law degree and work across five continents.

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## [Adam Sandler Was Right](https://yauguru.substack.com/p/adam-sandler-was-right)

_2026-07-25 · Stephen Hanmer D'Elía,JD,LCSW_

“If you’re sad now, you might still feel sad there, okay?”

## [Nothing Alive Is Finished](https://yauguru.substack.com/p/nothing-alive-is-finished)

_2026-07-19 · Stephen Hanmer D'Elía,JD,LCSW_

Identity is not sameness. It is continuity through change.

## [Cambiar sin dejar de ser](https://yauguru.substack.com/p/cambiar-sin-dejar-de-ser)

_2026-07-19 · Stephen Hanmer D'Elía,JD,LCSW_

La identidad no es inmovilidad. Es continuidad en el cambio.

## [America Has No Dirt](https://yauguru.substack.com/p/america-has-no-dirt)

_2026-07-02 · Stephen Hanmer D'Elía,JD,LCSW_

The promise is real. So is the dirt.

## [Estados Unidos no tiene mugre](https://yauguru.substack.com/p/estados-unidos-no-tiene-mugre)

_2026-07-02 · Stephen Hanmer D'Elía,JD,LCSW_

La promesa es real. También la mugre.

## [The Knicks, SpaceX, and the Rules That Bend](https://yauguru.substack.com/p/the-knicks-spacex-and-the-rules-that)

_2026-06-14 · Stephen Hanmer D'Elía,JD,LCSW_

One game kept faith with its rules. The market moved them for one man.

## [What Mothers Carry](https://yauguru.substack.com/p/what-mothers-carry)

_2026-05-10 · Stephen Hanmer D'Elía,JD,LCSW_

three bodies, one inside the next

## [Lo que cargan las madres](https://yauguru.substack.com/p/lo-que-cargan-las-madres)

_2026-05-10 · Stephen Hanmer D'Elía,JD,LCSW_

tres cuerpos, uno dentro del otro

## [The Body Is Where It Lands](https://yauguru.substack.com/p/the-body-is-where-it-lands)

_2026-05-03 · Stephen Hanmer D'Elía,JD,LCSW_

A podcast conversation on technology, AI, and the nervous system.

## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EDXWWiHLSEXM)

_2026-05-03 · **Sponsored**_

Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression.

## [When You Cannot Leave](https://yauguru.substack.com/p/when-you-cannot-leave)

_2026-04-14 · Stephen Hanmer D'Elía,JD,LCSW_

What Borrowed Safety Cost America’s Allies