by The Anti-Therapist | Dec 22, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Plurality, Relational Healing, Seasons & Holidays, Trauma-informed
A rebellion against holiday capitalism and a return to what actually keeps us fed, safe, supported, and human. The Holidays Weren’t Built for Survival The holidays pretend to be universal joy… a magical pause button… a sacred season of belonging. But let’s get fucking...
by The Anti-Therapist | Dec 19, 2025 | Attachment, Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Relational Healing, Trauma-informed
Why Plurals Experience Abandonment as a Full-Body Collapse Abandonment and rejection are not simple wounds. Not for complex trauma survivors. Not for plurals. These wounds are annihilation-level events… The kind of psychic earthquakes that crack through every layer of...
by The Anti-Therapist | Dec 19, 2025 | Attachment, Complex Trauma, Relational Healing, Trauma-informed
From Emotional Scarcity to Mutual Belonging… How We Heal the Original Break The Original Break… When Presence Becomes Conditional Abandonment wounds don’t begin with someone leaving. They begin when you learn that your existence costs too much. It might have looked...
by The Anti-Therapist | Dec 2, 2025 | Community Building, Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
The Violence Hidden Inside “Standards,” “Safety,” and the Dismissal of Lived Experience Coercive control isn’t always loud. It isn’t always overt. In professional groups… especially within mental health, trauma work, and “trauma-informed” collectives… coercive...
by The Anti-Therapist | Nov 26, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Plurality, Seasons & Holidays
The holidays are coming in hot…blazing, to be honest. And for many of us… especially complex trauma survivors, plural systems, and anyone who grew up in emotional starvation diets disguised as “family”… this is not some cozy Hallmark flick. This is a pressure cooker....
