05Feb What a Composite Model Is – And Is Not February 5, 2026 Rico McCahon Blog What a Composite Model Is – and Is Not by The Cornerstone Forum Read on SubstackRead more
22Jan Augustine, the Divided Will, and the Gravity of Desire January 22, 2026 Rico McCahon Blog Augustine, the Divided Will, and the Gravity of Desire by The Cornerstone Forum (Confessions, Book VII, Section 3) Read on...Read more
19Jun Composite Models: You Are Not a Self-Made Man June 19, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Composite Models: You Are Not a Self-Made Man by The Cornerstone Forum Read on SubstackRead more
03Jun What If the Self Were Shaped by Love, Not Lack? June 3, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog In the last post, we asked: If Christ reorients our desires, then the inner structure of the self must be...Read more
27May What If the Culture Is the Model? May 27, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Cultural Formation and Mimetic Saturation What if the culture isn’t just a background noise, but the model itself? That’s the...Read more
20May IFS and the Mystery of Multiplicity – Critiquing Internal Family Systems May 20, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog “You are not broken. You are just complex.” So goes the comforting refrain of Internal Family Systems (IFS), the therapeutic...Read more
13May Trauma as Mimetic Contradiction: Troubleshooting the Furnace of Our Desire May 13, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog We tend to think of trauma as something that happens to us—an event, an injury, a loss. But when viewed...Read more
06May Boomers, Rebels, and the Composite Model May 6, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Generational Formation through Mimetic Lenses We do not inherit desire directly—we inherit models of desire. We watch, absorb, imitate. And...Read more
01May My Parents, My Enemies: Generational Conflict and the Pain of Inherited Models May 1, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Why does it so often feel like our deepest wounds come from the people who loved us first? And why—when...Read more
29Apr Do Whatever He Tells You: Marian Formation and the Restoration of the Self April 29, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog “Do whatever he tells you.”(John 2:5) Why Mary Matters for Mimetic Formation In a world saturated by unstable models —...Read more
What a Composite Model Is – And Is Not
Augustine, the Divided Will, and the Gravity of Desire
Composite Models: You Are Not a Self-Made Man
What If the Self Were Shaped by Love, Not Lack?
What If the Culture Is the Model?
IFS and the Mystery of Multiplicity – Critiquing Internal Family Systems
Trauma as Mimetic Contradiction: Troubleshooting the Furnace of Our Desire
Boomers, Rebels, and the Composite Model
My Parents, My Enemies: Generational Conflict and the Pain of Inherited Models
Do Whatever He Tells You: Marian Formation and the Restoration of the Self