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When Disagreement Feels Like Danger: The Long Shadow of Psychological Abuse
Why survivors of emotional abuse may continue to question themselves, defend their intentions, and feel responsible for other people’s reactions long…
Oct 19
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Joyce Strong
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The Lost Language of Human Dignity
How nonviolent communication became extraordinary in an age of cruelty, coercive control, and political intimidation—and why understanding the…
Oct 15
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Joyce Strong
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Awareness Is Not a Safety Plan
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. But awareness means very little if the person we tell to leave has nowhere safe to go.
Oct 5
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Joyce Strong
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Trump Love-Bombed MAGA Into an Abusive Relationship
He found Americans who felt forgotten, gave them recognition, belonging and an identity, then taught them to distrust everyone but him. He gaslit them…
Oct 2
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Joyce Strong
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September 2026
Shame on Me: The Shame Was Never Mine
A song about the stories women inherit, the blame survivors carry, and the moment you finally understand whose shame it really was
Sep 27
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Joyce Strong
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Silent Gaslighting: When Your Pain Is Met With Nothing
Sometimes no one tells you that your pain isn’t real. They simply behave as though it doesn’t exist — and eventually you begin to wonder whether you…
Sep 22
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Joyce Strong
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Don’t Let Loneliness Choose Your Friends
Emotional hunger can make attention feel like care, intensity feel like intimacy, and familiarity feel like trust.
Sep 21
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Joyce Strong
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It’s a Mistake Until It Happens Again
Forgiveness without accountability doesn’t end the pattern. Sometimes it protects it.
Sep 16
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Joyce Strong
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When Your Kindness Becomes Their Obligation
How generosity gets rewritten as entitlement — and why saying no can reveal the relationship you are really in
Sep 15
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Joyce Strong
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When the Contact Ends but the Stress Doesn’t
Why you can leave a difficult person behind and still feel their presence in your body for hours afterward
Sep 13
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Joyce Strong
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The Rage That Knows Where to Stop
What domestic abuse can teach us about recognizing power and control in a much larger arena
Sep 9
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Joyce Strong
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When “No” Becomes Negotiable
Trump’s map is absurd on its face. The psychology and pattern behind it is not.
Sep 8
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Joyce Strong
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