Yearly Archives: 2026

Read more about the article When the Story Writes Itself
Familiarity can feel like belonging — even when it’s built on neglect, imbalance, or silence. Recognizing that difference has been part of my healing.
Trauma, Recovery & Nervous System Patterns

When the Story Writes Itself

I can’t deny how “clean” and persuasive the narrative against me can look. That’s what happens when people of similar energetic makeup benefit from the same imbalance — the same rupture without repair. The story writes itself. I’m learning to recognize and name that attraction and familiarity. This isn’t self-exoneration. It’s pattern literacy. And it unsettles the most convenient explanation — that things are “difficult” only where I’m involved — when all other relationships remain intact through the shared commitment…

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January 24, 2026
Read more about the article If X, Then Y: The Game Beneath the Board
Sometimes the smallest piece bears the greatest weight. What you see above the board is rarely the whole game.
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If X, Then Y: The Game Beneath the Board

I continue noticing how this pattern shows up at every scale. We’re taught to admire extreme wealth as proof of virtue — intelligence, discipline, superiority, deservingness. The story goes: They have more because they earned more. Which quietly implies the inverse: Those in poverty or struggle have failed. That belief system damages and divides all those without similar ranking. It hides how power actually works — how wealth concentrates through access, legislation, subsidy, insulation, and protection — and reframes it…

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January 23, 2026
Read more about the article The Binary: Invisible or a Spectacle
How harm can wear a friendly face. The contrast between public presentation and private impact is often where confusion—and self-doubt—takes root.
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The Binary: Invisible or a Spectacle

Post-therapy processing. I keep noticing a painful pattern. When I speak directly—calmly, clearly, logically—it’s often received as aggression. Meanwhile, dishonesty softened with politeness, or harm delivered with a smile, is protected, even rewarded. In the past, I would escalate or collapse, distracting from the issue with my reaction. I don’t do that anymore, but the outcome is no better. My existence itself starts to feel like the problem. I’ve been labeled “demanding” or “confrontational” simply for asking direct questions or…

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January 21, 2026
Read more about the article When Rightness Trumps Repair: Patterns in Diifficult Relationships
Gottman’s Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling—behaviors that quietly sabotage relationships.
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When Rightness Trumps Repair: Patterns in Diifficult Relationships

I’m getting closer to being able to name and understand this pattern after friction or  rupture in relationships with people heavily invested in their rightness and entitlement, and equally invested in my wrongness and unworthiness. When the conversation—tilts into litigation mode, they get to focus on proving the impeccability of their form while pointing to my “sensitivity” and inability to percieve correctly as THE problem. Historically I offered up the gift of distraction - with high reactivity- my increasing escalation or…

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January 16, 2026