Tag: estrangement

Quote image that reads: “But true peace does not exist until there is justice, restoration, forgiveness. Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.”

When Clarity Comes After Collapse

Learning to Stay With Myself Instead of the Story After nearly a year, I’ve finally found effective and comprehensive care. It’s been time‑consuming, soul‑depleting, and

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A woman sits alone in a dimly lit room, facing away, symbolizing emotional disconnection and the pain of being stonewalled in a relationship.

Learning What Love Is Not

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

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Text on a blue background reads: “Narcissistic parents make it nearly impossible for family members to maintain a relationship with their scapegoat child. They use every form of manipulation to ensure this child is shunned and ostracized from the family.”

It Has Broken Me

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,

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