big rock. big river.

Hello and welcome. My name is T. Lyn Maxwell and this is where you can get to know me and my ways. I want to help show people what they can do if only they knew they could. What I do is not for everyone and that is okay. If you are not called here, or your time is up, please feel free to go. If you do belong here though, stay and make yourself at home. Let’s get to know each other.

I was born and raised in Seattle, WA. In high school I did my senior year at the local community college, graduating high school early. I was then encouraged by my professors to leave the community college and pursue a university that would challenge me. I earned a bachelor of science degree in business management before having my daughter. I then went back to school and earned a master’s degree in psychology while living in Germany. I am now a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology. 

With my eyes on the end, I begin to deconstruct the systemic powers of America that allow harm to come to our children.

I have had horrid acts of violence perpetrated on me all my life. It has never stopped me from getting back up and I have no intention of letting it stop me now. I do intend to use every opportunity to dive deeper into my psyche because each time I come back stronger. After 13 near death experiences, I know that much at least. 

I have worked in psychedelic research, writing the protocol and proposal for an MDMA and Shame clinical trial. I have worked in personal care for disabled people with hard problems to work through. I have worked for the State government training supervisors and experts on neurodivergence and EDAI in the workplace. I have been invited into Black spaces to teach about the connection between the body and spirit. I have succeeded in demanding that the curriculum be changed three times, once in high school, once in undergrad, and once in graduate school because it wasn't up to my standards

I am finishing writing my dissertation on the lived experience of people who experience the first disclosure of a minor attracted person. I want to create a world that is so predictable, consistent, and safe, that people will opt into it before there is ever an issue just to make sure there won’t be one later. It won’t work in every case, but it will in enough to matter. 

I used to say if my story can help make it so one person doesn’t endure abuse then it was all worth it, but that’s not true for me anymore. That was the kind of thing I said when I still thought of the Moon as something to aim for and not just the first pit stop. My suffering will be a turning point in human evolution because I say so.