by The Anti-Therapist | Jan 18, 2026 | Community Building, Relational Healing
We are starving in a world that calls texting friendship. This isn’t nostalgia. This isn’t “missing the old days.” This is relational starvation. The kind you feel in your chest at night when you’ve technically “talked to people all day” and still feel hollow. The...
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 | Oct 7, 2025 | Attachment, Complex Trauma, Journal Unleashed: Reflections, Relational Healing
The Disappearing Sense of Connection There’s a strange, quiet ache that trauma survivors rarely have words for. It isn’t abandonment panic. It isn’t rejection fear. It’s the vanishing of closeness itself. You know someone cares. You know the relationship is solid...
by The Anti-Therapist | Oct 7, 2025 | Attachment, Complex Trauma, Relational Healing
Close Enough to Hope…Far Enough to Starve There’s a kind of loneliness that doesn’t come from being alone. It comes from being half-held… from people who say they care, say they want to get together, say you matter… while their actions tell the real story....
