Rest Is Not a Reward: Reclaiming Relaxation as Resistance
We know what it feels like to keep going when there’s nothing left in the tank. To push through the headache, the shortness of breath, the dissociation. To keep producing, performing, holding it all together because slowing down feels like it could crack something open we don’t have time to face.
That’s not personal failure. That’s conditioning.
When You’re the First One in Your Family to Go to Therapy
There’s a particular kind of loneliness that comes with being the first one in your family to sit on a therapist’s couch. It’s not just about explaining your feelings. It’s about translating an entire worldview. About breaking open ways of coping that generations before you needed just to survive.
Nobody talks about how heavy that is.
You’re not just going to therapy for yourself. You’re going for everyone who didn’t have the language.
The Unseen Cycle: How Victims of Narcissistic Abuse Can Unintentionally Become Abusers
There’s a hard truth we don’t talk about enough: sometimes, survivors of narcissistic abuse can find themselves repeating the very behaviors that once harmed them. Not out of malice or intention—but out of unhealed trauma, fear, and learned survival strategies. It’s uncomfortable. It doesn’t fit neatly into victim/perpetrator binaries. But it’s real, and we need to talk about it.