Reclaiming my life from psychological grooming and manipulation, understanding the tactics used to fracture me and their impact. Taking steps to navigate from decades of barely surviving to something not unlike thriving.
Something does not become untrue because somebody more influential tells the story differently. I have spent a lot of my life ateempting to reconcile the version of events that prevailed…
I've been thinking about my ability to participate safely in relationships which are non-essential and technically intended as sources of safe, healthy connection. Some discord is guaranteed. But sustained and…
A person can know something experientially long before they can articulate it. They might know, for example, “After X is upset with me, I end up confused. I initiate communication thinking…
For more than 40 years, I didn't really know how to exist inside a relationship unless I was the broken one, bowing in reliance to anyone gracious enough to let…