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The Chrysalis Center, LLC Online therapy for women who work hard to please everyone but themselves. Now accepting clients throughout the states of Louisiana, Texas, and Washington.

People often talk about leaving as though that single act resolves the experience. But with coercive control, the relati...
10/07/2026

People often talk about leaving as though that single act resolves the experience. But with coercive control, the relationship may end well before the consequences do.

A survivor might leave and still have to navigate financial damage, technology-related intrusion, housing instability, coparenting stress, trauma symptoms, and a long process of rebuilding self-trust.

Leaving matters. AND leaving is not the same thing as being fully free of a relationship’s effects.

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Educational content only; not therapy or individualized safety-planning support.



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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.When people hear “domestic violence,” they often picture physical assault, ...
10/01/2026

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

When people hear “domestic violence,” they often picture physical assault, visible injuries, or explosive conflict.

But abuse can also take the form of monitoring, isolation, financial control, intimidation, sexual coercion, manipulation, and the gradual erosion of someone’s ability to make decisions freely—without anticipating someone else’s reaction.

This blog post looks at non-physical domestic violence and coercive control, including why these patterns can be difficult to recognize when no single incident seems dramatic enough to explain what is happening.

Because sometimes the clearest sign isn’t one event.

It’s the pattern.

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Educational content only; not therapy or individualized safety advice.

If you’ve been seeing me talk about the Quietly Radical Reflection Circles, they grew out of this.You Have Nothing to Pr...
09/03/2026

If you’ve been seeing me talk about the Quietly Radical Reflection Circles, they grew out of this.

You Have Nothing to Prove is a 24-principle reflection journal for people who are tired of proving their worth through overfunctioning, people-pleasing, and self-neglect.

Each principle is an invitation to question some of the rules you may have learned about what you owe other people—and what you’re allowed to give yourself.

The Reflection Circles are one way I’m creating space to sit with those ideas together.

If you'd like a copy, the link to purchase is in the comments.

08/24/2026

What do you do when you’re still willing to try—but the other person isn’t sure they want to keep trying?

I heard Die Trying this weekend, and it brought me right back to something I wrote recently:

Trying is not the problem. The problem begins when trying becomes primarily one person’s job.

Read “When Trying Harder in a Relationship Becomes Self-Abandonment” on my website (link in bio).

I’ve been thinking about the difference between working on a relationship and becoming responsible for keeping it alive....
08/18/2026

I’ve been thinking about the difference between working on a relationship and becoming responsible for keeping it alive.

Sometimes self-abandonment does not look like neglecting yourself. It looks like explaining more, adjusting more, forgiving more, repairing more—and hoping that if you keep trying, the relationship will finally become what you know it could be.

My latest blog post explores mutuality, unequal relational labor, and the point where devotion can begin to cost you too much.

Read: When Trying Harder in a Relationship Becomes Self-Abandonment

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