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I Won An Award For Telling My Story: Don’t Ever Let Them Break You

I Won An Award For Telling My Story: Don’t Ever Let Them Break You

For many years, I've been reading and resonating with the physician literary magazine PULSE. (You can read it on their site here and subscribe to Pulse here.) Earlier this year, they had a writing contest with the prompt "On Being Different." I decided to enter the...

11 Things I’ve Learned From All The Cult Documentaries & Podcasts

11 Things I’ve Learned From All The Cult Documentaries & Podcasts

Because two people in my inner circle are in recovery from controlling relationships and cultic abuse, I've been educating myself by watching all the cult documentaries, reading books about cult recovery, and listening to all the podcasts, like my favorite, Rachel...

Contempt, Blanket Training, And Complex-PTSD, Oh My

Contempt, Blanket Training, And Complex-PTSD, Oh My

In couple’s therapists John and Julie Gottman’s work on the “Four Horsemen Of The Apocalpyse,” they name the four behaviors that kill marriages, namely criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling. Contempt, they say, is the single most dangerous behavior, and...

We Hurt Each Other When We Don’t Understand How Trauma Works

We Hurt Each Other When We Don’t Understand How Trauma Works

Gordon’s girlfriend Steph has to leave home for stretches of time for her work. They live together, and when they’re together, their relationship seems great. He’s happy to see her after work every day, he thinks fondly about her when he’s at work, he’s grateful for...

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