“How are you doing?” seems like such a simple question until life becomes complicated enough that there’s no simple answer anymore. A reflection on survival mode, grief, friendships, executive function, and learning to walk a very different road than the one imagined years ago.
Category: Trauma & Recovery
Self-Medication in the Wasteland
Long-term stress changes more than your emotions. It changes your body, your brain, and eventually your survival instincts. A reflection on narcissistic relationships, chronic cortisol exposure, PTSD, grief, and the dangerous comfort of self-medication.
Boundaries Are Not Negotiations
A boundary is not a request for better treatment—it is a decision about what you will no longer tolerate. And once it becomes negotiable, so do you.
Empathy Is a Job Requirement
There are professions where empathy is optional. DOJ_TERMINAL // STATUS: EMPATHY_NOT_FOUND Prosecutor is not one of them. You don’t get to sit at the highest table of law enforcement in the country and treat sexual assault survivors like a scheduling inconvenience. You don’t get to call accountability “theatrics” and expect trauma not to hear contempt. …