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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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Having Cancer Again: The Real Work of Love
Looking back, it seems obvious that what happened to me that summer was traumatic. I was a fifteen-year-old receiving chemo for Hodgkin’s...
davikath8
Feb 6, 20242 min read
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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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May 6, 20221 min read
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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....
davikath8
Dec 16, 20212 min read
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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...
davikath8
Nov 29, 20212 min read
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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...
davikath8
Oct 31, 20211 min read
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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...
davikath8
Jun 15, 20211 min read
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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...
davikath8
May 2, 20212 min read
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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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Mar 31, 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:...
davikath8
Mar 25, 20212 min read
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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...
davikath8
Mar 10, 20212 min read
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What Is Emotional Abuse
Source: Canadian Women’s Foundation https://canadianwomen.org/blog/signs-of-emotional-abuse/ According to the Canadian Department of...
davikath8
Mar 9, 20213 min read
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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,...
davikath8
Mar 7, 20212 min read
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