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The Day I Found My Missing Link (Part 1)
How The Body Keeps the Score Finally Explained Why I Couldn't Control My Rage—And Why My Therapist Couldn't See It
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Honest Healing. Hard Truths. Hold on for the light.
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How I Refused to Inherit My Mother's Life
Mar 6
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Where I Am Now (Part 6)
And what I am still learning...
Feb 27
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It Does Not Fear Outrage. It Fears Specifics.
How patriarchy survives by keeping the details blurred
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Breaking the Shackles
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Where I Am Now (Part 6)
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My Body Went Numb in My Marriage: How Drinking 8-10 Glasses a Night Stopped Working and My Body Shut Down (Part 4)
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What I Had to Teach My Daughter That No One Taught Me (Part 5)
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My Body Went Numb in My Marriage: How Drinking 8-10 Glasses a Night Stopped Working and My Body Shut Down (Part 4)
Understanding Emotional Numbness, Dissociation, Functional Alcoholism, and the Physical Cost of Staying in an Emotionally Cold Marriage
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I Couldn't Say No in My Own House: How Childhood Trauma and a Controlling Marriage Stole My Voice (Part 3)
Understanding the Fawn Response, Parentification Trauma, and Learning to Set Boundaries After Sixteen Years of People-Pleasing
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When Self-Help Isn’t Written for Your Nervous System
Why Brené Brown and Julia Cameron’s advice works for some people—and not for others
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Where Else Would I Go? (Part 2)
How the Scared Little Girl Inside Me Made All My Decisions
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Former foster youth writing about survival, healing, and breaking the cycles that shaped me. New essays every Thursday.
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