I'm Still Here
Whenever I doubt myself, the continuity of my mind and my body, all I need to do is dance, turning and winding and bending and...
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davikath8
- Dec 16, 2021
- 2 min
Healing from Psychiatry's Excesses
Because I was determined to live fully and deeply, I weaned myself off psychiatric drugs. The suffering was intense but worthwhile....
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davikath8
- Nov 29, 2021
- 2 min
The Deepest Well: Childhood Stress and its Consequences
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity DR. NADINE BURKE HARRIS is the founder and CEO of the...
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davikath8
- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
My Only Judge, My Heart
I have told my story, read and reread it, edited and proofed it, polished and published it. So goodbye to all that. I slam the door on...
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davikath8
- Jun 15, 2021
- 1 min
Attention Indomitable Spirits
Every moment you allow them to occupy you, you are yielding, you are giving them a victory. I am a survivor only of personal history, of...
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davikath8
- May 2, 2021
- 2 min
The Single Lesson of Talk Therapy
The single lesson of decades of talk therapy was communicated to my husband by a naked, elder colleague in the close quarters of a men’s...
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davikath8
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
What Not To Ignore
It would have helped if a single person had come forward to defend me or at least validate my perceptions of reality. Instead I had the...
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davikath8
- Mar 25, 2021
- 2 min
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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davikath8
- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
Live the Questions
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are...
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davikath8
- Mar 9, 2021
- 3 min
What Is Emotional Abuse
Source: Canadian Women’s Foundation https://canadianwomen.org/blog/signs-of-emotional-abuse/ According to the Canadian Department of...
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davikath8
- Mar 7, 2021
- 2 min
How I Came to Voice
I went to college unsure of myself. I had been driven underground by my own family, told again and again I was wrong, ugly, and stupid,...
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