Trauma, Recovery & Nervous System Patterns Archives - Wholesome Badass: A Work in Progress

Wholesome Badass girl draws a new relational blueprint based on nurturing, honest communication, accountability, and trust, while discarding an old blueprint of scapegoating, manipulation, and emotional neglect.

The Caller Was Inside the House

October 8, 2026 No Comments

The people I relied on for protection were the same people I needed protection from. They were also the ones teaching lil baby Magda about

The Shit Before the Shift

September 29, 2026 No Comments

No Dimmer Switch I feel everything the most amount—the good and the unpleasant—constantly. Everything in high definition. I am a deep feeler, or as the

Black-and-white Wholesome Badass illustration of a woman kneeling in prayer with a thought bubble about making peace with unequal standards around failure.

Ordinary Failure

September 22, 2026 No Comments

The archetypal persona seems to move through every telling of their own life with access to explanations they do not extend to anyone else. When

Black-and-white Wholesome Badass drawing of a girl lying on a couch with a thought bubble that says, “If no one is actually perfect or infallible, doesn’t protecting that image eventually require omission, distortion, or misrepresentation?”

Can the Need to Appear Infallible Make Someone Less Honest?

September 21, 2026 No Comments

I am increasingly interested in the archetypal persona—the kind of person for whom being, or even appearing, incorrect, uncertain, or imperfect seems almost unthinkable. Like