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Redemption in 126 BPM: How U2’s Joshua Tree Rewired My Mind and Body
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

Redemption in 126 BPM: How U2’s Joshua Tree Rewired My Mind and Body

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.

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Personality Collapse: How Absent Fathers Sabotage the Soul
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

Personality Collapse: How Absent Fathers Sabotage the Soul

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.

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The Backseat Confessional: Real Therapy in an Uber
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

The Backseat Confessional: Real Therapy in an Uber

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.

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When the Body Says No: Erectile Dysfunction and the Masculine Collapse
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

When the Body Says No: Erectile Dysfunction and the Masculine Collapse

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.

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The Sonic Unconscious: How 90s Grunge Producers Mapped the Psyche
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

The Sonic Unconscious: How 90s Grunge Producers Mapped the Psyche

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.

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The Therapist Is In, But the Framework Is Missing: Why PrecisionCycle Is the Post-Therapeutic Answer Kurt Cobain Never Got
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

The Therapist Is In, But the Framework Is Missing: Why PrecisionCycle Is the Post-Therapeutic Answer Kurt Cobain Never Got

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.

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I Walk Into the Room—and the Old Guard Circles the Wagons
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

I Walk Into the Room—and the Old Guard Circles the Wagons

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.

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Memorial Day Standup: Boundaries Over Bullshit — Why Therapy Is Failing You and What PrecisionCycle Delivers Instead
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

Memorial Day Standup: Boundaries Over Bullshit — Why Therapy Is Failing You and What PrecisionCycle Delivers Instead

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.

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Built Different: Why Boundaries, Not Therapy, Are the True Antidote to Narcissism, Perimenopause, and Emotional Collapse
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

Built Different: Why Boundaries, Not Therapy, Are the True Antidote to Narcissism, Perimenopause, and Emotional Collapse

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.

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Containment, Clicks, and the Cost of Production
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

Containment, Clicks, and the Cost of Production

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.

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Boundary Culture: What the Dutch Already Know and American Therapy Still Can’t Grasp
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

Boundary Culture: What the Dutch Already Know and American Therapy Still Can’t Grasp

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.

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The Hidden Breakdown: What Perimenopause Reveals About Personality Structure
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

The Hidden Breakdown: What Perimenopause Reveals About Personality Structure

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.

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Field Notes from Collapse: How Three Borderline Archetypes Shaped elevate.epo
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

Field Notes from Collapse: How Three Borderline Archetypes Shaped elevate.epo

On a Friday night, Jane broke the frame.
She turned a casual drink into an emotional detonation—and in doing so, exposed the exact architecture that elevate.epo was built to decode.

She wasn't evil. She was unregulated.
She used sex to feel something, control to keep from drowning, and chaos to test whether anyone could hold her.

This episode walks you through three real client archetypes—The Siren, The Mirror, and The Flame—and shows you exactly how borderline structures collapse in the wild.

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When You Are, You Just Do
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

When You Are, You Just Do

He doesn’t remember saying it.
Didn’t plan it. Didn’t script it. Didn’t even try.

And yet—forty minutes of unbroken calibration, surgical language, and total field command. That’s what happens in flow.epo: when the work isn’t performed, it’s embodied.

This week’s entry is a dispatch from the zone. A reminder that when mastery lives in your body, the doing happens on its own. Because when you are, you just do.

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The Jamie Calibration: A Clinical Case Study in G.A.M.E. by EROs
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

The Jamie Calibration: A Clinical Case Study in G.A.M.E. by EROs

A clinical case study detailing how one emotionally overloaded nurse was transformed—not by therapy, but by the application of G.A.M.E. by EROs. Through Grounded, Affirming, Masculine Energy, she didn’t just find a partner—she found recalibration. This is how elevate.epo works when containment becomes the correction.

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Cap’n Crunch with Water: Fonagy, Kendrick, and the Death of Pretend Theory
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

Cap’n Crunch with Water: Fonagy, Kendrick, and the Death of Pretend Theory

“You ever eat Cap’n Crunch with water?”


That line from Kendrick Lamar hits harder than any graduate seminar—and Peter Fonagy would agree. In 2003, Fonagy wrote that therapy must be freed from theoretical dogma and returned to embodied, real-time recalibration. That’s the exact terrain elevate.epo operates in today. This isn’t speculation. It’s what happens when survival becomes system.

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How EROs Solves Daddy Issues: The elevate.epo Answer to Weak Fathers and Collapsing Polarity
Enrique Arteaga Enrique Arteaga

How EROs Solves Daddy Issues: The elevate.epo Answer to Weak Fathers and Collapsing Polarity

We didn’t just talk about weak dads. We mapped the system they broke.

This week we dissected perception, saw how fatherlessness distorts masculine calibration, and named the true cost of Daddy Issues: the collapse of erotic containment. elevate.epo doesn’t just analyze the problem—it architects the answer.

EROs is our operational framework to train men in the art of internal coherence, external charge, and sovereign field control. This isn’t healing. This is engineering. If your dad couldn’t lead, you become the man who can.

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