In this powerful episode of PrecisionCycle, Enrique Arteaga breaks down why the mental health system fails men, how dating apps reflect deeper cultural imbalances, and what psychodynamic thinkers actually said about male suffering.

Drawing from Christopher Lasch’s Culture of Narcissism, Winnicott’s false self theory, Reich’s libido suppression, and Jung’s shadow work, this is more than commentary—it’s a manifesto. If you’ve ever felt misunderstood in therapy, this episode isn’t just for you. It’s about you.

Goodfellas is not about crime. It’s not about the mob. It’s about psychology.

What Martin Scorsese gave us in Goodfellas wasn’t a story of violence—it was a portrait of disorganized attachment, unhealed rage, codependent loops, and the quiet panic that haunts those raised by chaos.

Henry Hill is the addicted chameleon. Jimmy Conway is the cold operator. Tommy DeVito is explosive narcissism incarnate. Karen Hill is the trauma co-conspirator.

The real drama? It's not in the killings. It’s in the archetypes.

In this deep-dive, I use the PrecisionCycle framework to decode the trauma beneath the tracksuits. If you’ve ever felt unseen, sabotaged, or stuck, this isn’t just film analysis—it’s your wake-up call.

What if America doesn’t have a narcissism problem—what if narcissism is the American project?

That’s the question Narcissism Nation is here to answer. And the truth won’t fit into your therapist’s notes.

More than a critique, this is a confrontation. A line-by-line breakdown of how our culture rewards grandiosity, punishes vulnerability, and mass-produces pathology in the name of “freedom.” This isn’t pop psych. This is forensic analysis of a society built on ego inflation and emotional extraction.

In Narcissism Nation, we explore how the DSM became a political document. How capitalism turns personality disorders into survival strategies. And how modern suffering—depression, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders—isn’t a flaw in the individual, but a feature of the system.

You weren’t broken. You were born into something that is.

This is the origin story of American mental illness. it’s time we told it right.

If you feel uncalibrated, it’s not you. It’s the system gaslighting you into compliance. Rug pulling is as American as apple pie — and that’s why PrecisionCycle exists. To recalibrate, not coddle. To expose, not excuse

You’ve heard the groove—but did you know it’s regulating your body? This blog dives deep into how Norteño bass players—like those in Tigres del Norte, Grupo Frontera, and Selena’s band—subtly seduce your nervous system through timing, tension, and micro-movement. It’s not music—it’s embodied containment.

Tied directly into the PrecisionCycle framework, we reveal how these musicians act as unspoken healers—balancing chaos, guiding emotional rhythm, and activating the same pathways as ASMR. If you’re ready to understand your body’s hidden response to rhythm, this one’s for you.

ASMR isn’t just internet fluff. It’s a soft-tech intervention that mimics dream-state processing, metabolizes dissociated affect, and provides a nonverbal holding environment where the body can start to feel safe again. For clients who can’t tell their story, ASMR helps them feel it—without retraumatization. This isn’t about calm. It’s about coherence.

U2’s The Joshua Tree isn’t just a rock classic—it’s a hidden nervous system recalibration tool. Enrique Arteaga, founder of elevate.epo, unpacks how this album carried him through weight loss, burnout, and emotional reintegration. A must-read for anyone seeking spiritual depth, somatic awareness, and performance psychology through sound.

APG Media, the content arm of PrecisionCycle and elevate.epo, just dropped its first major test—and the numbers speak for themselves. Here's how one 15-minute video generated 5.5K views, $540 of earned media value, and set the blueprint for brand domination.

What if your inability to hold boundaries isn’t a character flaw—but a missing transmission from your father? In this raw, surgically precise episode, Enrique exposes how the absence of masculine modeling arrests personality development—and how we rebuild it through the PrecisionCycle method. This is not therapy. This is a recalibration of the soul.

In a rain-soaked Uber ride through Los Angeles, two strangers unlock decades of unprocessed trauma, intergenerational silence, and hard-won forgiveness. Welcome to life.epo, where therapy doesn’t wait for a couch.

Erectile dysfunction isn’t a malfunction. It’s your nervous system saying: “I’m done performing.” Most men think it’s about hormones, porn, or pressure. But deep down, it’s about dissociation—losing presence when your partner activates old wounds you never named. Your body knows the truth even when you won’t say it. It’s not just soft—it’s signaling. Tune in to find out what it’s really saying.

What if 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' was your false self—and 'In Utero' was your unfiltered trauma response? What if Rick Rubin made your pain sacred, and Brendan O’Brien taught you to loop your rage into something palatable? This episode unpacks the unspoken psychodynamic wisdom embedded in 90s grunge—and why it still resonates like therapy for the disillusioned.

What do warm milk, laxatives, and cherry-flavored antacids have to do with therapy?

Everything—if you’re stuck in the soothing, infantilizing loop of modern mental health that comforts you just enough to keep you dependent. In this episode, I expose how the therapeutic frame often disguises control as care, how clinicians confuse boundary enforcement with emotional abandonment, and how the ghost of Kurt Cobain still haunts every defensively licensed practitioner who’s never once been asked to explain their actual method.

Therapy is not the enemy. But the refusal to evolve is.

When a man walks into therapy already integrated, the system doesn’t know what to do with him. He’s not confused. He’s not collapsing. He’s not there to be fixed. And that’s when the old guard circles the wagons—because a man who holds frame exposes the entire simulation.

While most therapists are still selling you weekly “space-holding” sessions wrapped in jargon and pathology, elevate.epo is delivering real-time recalibration and actual psychological traction. On this special Memorial Day standup, Enrique calls out the mental health system’s addiction to inertia—and explains why PrecisionCycle is the high-performance tool modern adults actually need. This isn’t about feelings. It’s about fire, focus, and forward motion.

What if the therapy industrial complex got it all wrong? In this week’s blog, Enrique dismantles the pathology-fetishizing culture of modern psychology and replaces it with something more grounded: boundaries. This isn't about wellness platitudes. It's about becoming an anchored, calibrated operator in a society that's forgotten how to contain itself.

They tried to break me—again. Shut off my service, gaslit me through four layers of support, and blocked access to my own data while I was trying to file a legitimate insurance claim. All while I’m running a business, parenting, and staying fit. But here’s the thing: I held frame. I produced. I published. I trained. And I still made time for my kids.

That’s what elevate.epo means when we talk about field calibration. It’s not about staying calm—it’s about staying clean. The world throws chaos, you stay on mission. You protect the core. You execute anyway.

This isn’t just resilience. It’s design.
Containment is king.

Boundaries aren’t rejection. They’re psychological architecture. They don’t push people away—they expose who was only ever comfortable with your collapse.

And that guilt you feel placing one? That’s not compassion.
That’s the nervous system residue of a life spent managing other people’s fragility just to avoid being labeled “difficult.”

But difficulty is the price of sovereignty. And clarity is the field’s final gift.

When Evelyn—the Salsera who once slipped through his fingers—resurfaced, Vince didn’t chase. He didn’t explain. He stood still and let her remember. This time, he wasn’t trying to be chosen. He was the choice. This is how a second chance becomes the right one—when it’s led by G.A.M.E., not desperation.

Perimenopause isn’t just a biological shift. It’s a stress test of the ego. Using McWilliams’ psychoanalytic lens, we explore how core personality structures—borderline, narcissistic, depressive, obsessive, masochistic—respond when the internal system destabilizes. This episode isn’t about hormones. It’s about structure. And what it takes to rebuild.