Growing up under the regime of a macho Italian father and with a legacy of family abuse, I was a sensitive, creative boy who felt deeply ashamed of my perceived male inadequacies and afraid of my own masculine power. My early fascination with nature found a home in phycology, the study of algae, but to uncover and own my passion for and divine connection to the natural world through algae, I first had to expose my childhood wounds, address the forbidden world of my own trauma, and face the ancestral wound that kept me from fully embracing my true love of algae and self.

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我对藻类的禁忌之恋

在一个男子气概的意大利父亲的统治下长大，并有家庭虐待的遗产，我是一个敏感、有创造力的男孩，对我认为的男性不足深感羞耻，害怕自己的男性力量。我早期对自然的迷恋在藻类研究中找到了归宿，但为了通过藻类发现并拥有我对自然世界的热情和神圣联系，我首先必须暴露我童年的伤口，解决我自己的禁忌世界创伤，面对祖先的创伤，使我无法完全拥抱我对藻类和自我的真爱。