Tag: sister betrayal

Your sense of being ok as you are is drectly related to the degree to which yur family and community accepted you as you were.

Mental Health Awareness

October 3, 2021 No Comments

October is the beginning of the hardest time of year, for me, the season of my birthday and all of the festivity and expectations for

Step ZERO

September 18, 2021 No Comments

So based on my boys’ father’s recent behavior/mood, I assumed he either had managed to wrangle some female attention from someone other than his sisters or

If standing up for yourself burns a bridge, fuck that bridge Jilan Catherine Ghoneim Whitney

Raising Boys Amid Trauma, Silence, and Emotional Games

July 17, 2021 No Comments

Artificial Indifference Artificial Indifference. Finally—a name for the thing that was sought, feigned, and revered in my family, and later in an equally dysfunctional marriage.

Sponge bob to do list to include overthinking and missing someone he never had. Depression. Estrangement. Alienation. Black sheep. Scapegoat.

Night-Time

February 7, 2021 No Comments

Even with 10+ years of recovery and spiritual retrieval work (though lately, the doing of the work is minimal and I find myself right back in