Exploring the confusion, self-doubt, and hard-won clarity that can emerge from experience with gaslighting and emotional manipulation.
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…
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…
There is a scene in Boardwalk Empire in which a priest is standing in a river performing a baptism. He is wearing white robes. He is smiling. He occupies a position of…