Candid Stories
Personal essays about complex trauma, coercive control, and the slow, messy work of healing — and the manipulators, scammers, and false gurus who make that work harder. Plus a bit of fun and adventure thrown in.
I'm not a psychologist or a licensed anything. I'm a reader, a researcher, and a person who has been through some things. Think critically, do your own research, and seek professional support when you need it.
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Breaking the Cycle: Postpartum Rage and Becoming the Mother I Always Needed
It was 2020, a year that had already taken so much from so many of us, and it was about to take one more thing from me. I didn’t know it then, but that phone call was the last time I'd ever be met with my mother’s silence.
The Grim Guest: Life and its Inevitable End
I spent my teenage years researching ways to die and hanging out in cemeteries. My relationship with death has changed considerably since then — but not entirely.