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Healing after Gaslighting: On Stepping out of my Abusers’ Shoes
Having long been gaslighted by authority figures, I tend to gaslight myself, but I am done. Believing myself is healing, is health.
davikath8
Feb 131 min read
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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: A Cancer Survivor's PTSD
A survivor of multiple cancers reflects on her relationship with panic, how PTSD has shaped her life and her character.
davikath8
Oct 31, 20242 min read
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Clothes Are Not Cancer Treatment: On Learning To Be Vulnerable
A survivor of cancer and childhood abuse learns she is not entirely free of her troubled past
davikath8
Aug 29, 20243 min read
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Knowing When to Walk Away
Having recently cut all ties with my family of origin, I have moved from anger, shock, and loss to feelings of freedom, joy, and release....
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Dec 4, 20211 min read
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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
My parents’ training of me started early and was original in its cruelty. Christmas day, 1975, when I was five years old, I cried because...
davikath8
Nov 25, 20212 min read
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Modern Gaslighting
Unlike the character played by Ingrid Bergman in the 1944 film, Gaslight, I had nothing valuable to motivate my father to undermine me:...
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Mar 25, 20212 min read
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Crimes That Are Not Illegal
If my parents had left bruises, I would, even as a 10-year-old, have found my way to the Auburn Police Station and testified against...
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Mar 21, 20211 min read
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