Journal Unleashed
When Influence, Humor, and “Expertise” Collide: A Plural Clinician’s Critique
When clinicians joke about plurality and dissociation in spaces that plural people already know are unsafe, harm is reproduced quietly. This essay examines how influence, humor, and “expertise” silence lived experience and why absence is not consent.
Healing The Holiday Hangover… When the Exhaustion Hits Hard
If the holidays left you exhausted and questioning everything, you didn’t fail healing. This piece explores the Holiday Healing Hangover… The nervous system crash that often comes after surviving family dynamics, especially for complex trauma survivors, neurodivergent folks, and plural systems.
When Holidays Hurt: Choosing What Actually Matters
This season, capitalism tells us that belonging requires debt and joy must be purchased. But when survival is already on the line, holiday expectations become nervous system violence. Here’s how to reclaim your truth, honor your needs, and build connection that doesn’t cost you everything.
When Rejection Hits Every Part at Once
When you’re plural, rejection doesn’t hit just one part… It echoes through the whole internal world. This is what that collapse really feels like.
Healing the Wound of Abandonment and Rejection
Abandonment and rejection wounds are survival imprints formed when care was conditional. Healing isn’t just about trusting again… It’s about rebuilding belonging through body, community, and radical self-honesty. This is how we stop mistaking absence and harm for love.
When Professional Groups Become Coercive Ecosystems
Professional groups often claim safety, ethics, and trauma-informed care… while enforcing hierarchy, silencing lived experience, and pathologizing dissent. This essay exposes how coercive control takes root, how it harms complex trauma and plural survivors, and how to recognize the early signs before the room erases you.
The Season of Pressure: Surviving the Holiday Minefield
The holidays feel like a minefield for trauma survivors and plural systems. This piece cuts through the forced cheer and offers real strategies for boundaries, regulation, grief, and surviving the season without losing your spark.
You’re Not Broken Because Family Is Unsafe
You’re not broken because the people who should’ve loved you weren’t safe. If just hearing the word “family” makes your chest tighten, this one’s for you. Your nervous system isn’t the problem… The environment was. Let’s navigate this season together. This post continues exclusively on Substack. Come join me there to read the full post.
Ego State Theory: The Patriarch’s Blueprint for Controlling the Plural Mind
Ego State Theory wasn’t created to understand the plural mind. It was designed to control it. From Structural Dissociation to IFS, every “parts work” model still worships hierarchy. Plurality isn’t a disorder. It’s defiance… The wild forest breaking through the empire of One.