No matter how many times it was demanded I lighten up, calm down, go with the flow and get over it, I just still did not.
“Conflict is not the enemy of connection. Avoidance is.”
When we learn to engage with honesty instead of disappearing into silence, we give relationships a chance to grow. #emotionalintimacy #traumahealing #communication
Stonewalling breaks me. Stonewalling breaks me. I don’t bounce back from it. But I’ve repeatedly and predictably returned for more. Hopefully, for the last time. The silent treatment and banishment…
Stonewalling feels like abandonment masked as calm—a silent disconnection that wounds deeply.
Drawn to the Closed Door I’ve come to understand something about myself, and it’s both painful and clarifying: I gravitate toward people who use silence as a weapon. Stonewalling—cold, controlled,…
When “Are You Okay?” Is a Warning, a Call-Out, Not Care Historically, my sister would frequently corner me and ask, “Are you okay?” But it wasn’t because she cared. It…
A stark truth rendered in words—how narcissistic abuse isolates the scapegoat child.
The Cycle Wins~ It has been deeply painful to not only have been judged from my earliest days, for my senstivity, my overwhelm, my limits, and that my existence has…
