by The Anti-Therapist | Oct 6, 2025 | Community Building, Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Relational Healing, Therapy Harm
(And… obviously, but not so obvious to some, against therapy harm.) Setting the Record Straight Let’s clear this up right now… I am not against therapy. I’ve sat in those chairs. I’ve done the work. Therapy has saved lives… including mine. It can be sacred,...
by The Anti-Therapist | Oct 3, 2025 | Attachment, Complex Trauma, Relational Healing
Real Talk People keep smashing attachment and connection together like they’re the same thing. Therapists, self-help gurus, TikTok, coaches… Everyone loves to overanalyze until the words lose all meaning. But listen… They’re not the same. They overlap, they fuel each...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 26, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Relational Healing, Therapy Letters, Trauma-informed
Dear Client, You believe I don’t see it, but I do. The shield. The sudden quiet. The way your gaze drifts toward the floor when something soft brushes too close. The air between us changes… thickens… and I know the protesters are awake inside you, chanting, holding...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 25, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Journal Unleashed: Reflections, Relational Healing, Therapy Letters, Trauma-informed
Dear Therapist, There is a war that lives under my skin. From the outside it doesn’t look like war at all… It looks like polite sentences, careful eye contact, and the kind of smile that knows how to pass. I keep the appointments, I say the words, I sit in the chair....
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 9, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Relational Healing, Trauma-informed
The Trauma-Industrial Complex “Trauma-informed” has become a marketing brand. It’s stamped across websites, plastered on intake forms, sprinkled into bios. It signals, “You’re safe here. We get it.” But more often than not, it’s just branding… a sales pitch. There’s...
by The Anti-Therapist | Aug 30, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Relational Healing
There’s a raw difference between PTSD, cPTSD, and the chaos that forged you. The mental health world loves to box human suffering into tidy little acronyms: PTSD, cPTSD, pick your favorite flavor of alphabet soup. But here’s the thing… those labels rarely hold the...
