• Part I - My Big Fat Greek Body (0-V)
    Jan 26 2023

    I-0: Prologue: The Do-Over

    I-I: To Love and Conquer

    I-II: Australian Gothic

    I-III: Sleep

    I-IV: Wake In Fright

    I-V: Spartan Mirage


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    30 mins
  • I-V: Spartan Mirage
    Jan 26 2023

    My fears certainly don’t love me, but they haven’t conquered me either. And right now, that’s OK. At least "that’s OK " until something forces us to fight to the death.


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    6 mins
  • I-IV: Wake In Fright
    Jan 26 2023

    I looked inwards, and it was so dark that not even black couldn’t escape. It was just a devil’s dust bowl of words: “Cutting off pieces of yourself to find yourself. Like you always do.”


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    3 mins
  • I-III: Sleep
    Jan 26 2023

    If nothing else, after years of sleeping so badly, I’m about to have the deepest sleep I’ve had in some time.

    “You’ve earned this.” I think to myself. “At least this.”


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    5 mins
  • I-II: Australian Gothic
    Jan 26 2023

    If you’ve ever had a lifelong battle with a personal problem, chances are you have taken a few weird - maybe drastic - measures to come out on top.

    For me that was in 2012 when I went to a health retreat that was hosted by a fundamentalist religious sect, deep in the Southern Highlands of NSW.


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    10 mins
  • I-I: To Love and Conquer
    Jan 26 2023

    Let me tell you all a story about one of the most important moments of my life: my gastric sleeve surgery.

    Or rather, let me tell you my story about why an otherwise common, life-saving procedure was, and still is, such an earth-shattering experience for me...


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    5 mins
  • I-0: The Do-Over
    Jan 24 2023
    A message from Kosta about This Is Sparta.
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    2 mins