Exploring the scapegoat role within narcissistic family systems and the lasting impact of blame, shame, rejection and family dysfunction on adult life.
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…
The Binary The archetypes seem to move through life inside a rigid binary: winners and losers, heroes and villains, right and wrong. In their accounting for outcomes, there seems a…
I’ve been sitting with a word that has always troubled me, a state of "being" that feels out of reach: happiness. There seems to be so little capacity out there…
I’ve been reflecting on how, in my family—and unironically, in the family of the man I had children with—belonging was not rooted in mutual care, nuance, or individuality. It was…