Dr. Karina

09/07/2026

I am going live in October... a virtual group for women.🖤

One of the strangest things about healing from narcissistic or psychological abuse is that you can leave the relationship—and still not feel like you’ve gotten yourself back.

You can understand what happened. You can recognize the patterns. You can know that what you experienced was harmful. And still, there can be this much longer process of finding your way back to your own voice, instincts, anger, desire, boundaries, and sense of self.

That is the space The Sacred Rebellion™ was created for.
This fall, I’m opening the first small group of The Sacred Rebellion™—an 8-week live online experience for women healing from narcissistic and psychological abuse.

This isn’t about spending eight weeks analyzing the narcissist. We've been there and done that. It’s about turning the attention back toward YOU — and what it means to reclaim yourself after surviving a relationship that taught you to disappear.

We begin Sunday, October 4, and I’m intentionally keeping the group small.

I hold a doctorate in Jungian Depth Psychology, and my clinical and scholarly work focuses on trauma, relational dynamics, narcissistic abuse, and coercive control. I’ve also had the honor of training with Dr. Ramani Durvasula, whose work has profoundly shaped the field of narcissistic abuse recovery.

If something in this recognizes something in you—or you know a woman who might need this space—you can learn more here:

(Click the pink sofa.🌸)

https://www.dolcepea.com/sacred-rebellion-interest🖤

Introducing The Sacred Rebellion™ An 8-week live psychoeducational group for women reclaiming themselves after narcissistic abuse & coercive control.

09/04/2026

08/23/2026

I am going live ... a virtual group for women.🖤

One of the strangest things about healing from narcissistic or psychological abuse is that you can leave the relationship—and still not feel like you’ve gotten yourself back.

You can understand what happened. You can recognize the patterns. You can know that what you experienced was harmful. And still, there can be this much longer process of finding your way back to your own voice, instincts, anger, desire, boundaries, and sense of self.

That is the space The Sacred Rebellion™ was created for.
This fall, I’m opening the first small group of The Sacred Rebellion™—an 8-week live online experience for women healing from narcissistic and psychological abuse.

This isn’t about spending eight weeks analyzing the narcissist. We've been there and done that. It’s about turning the attention back toward YOU — and what it means to reclaim yourself after surviving a relationship that taught you to disappear.

We begin Sunday, October 4, and I’m intentionally keeping the group small.

I hold a doctorate in Jungian Depth Psychology, and my clinical and scholarly work focuses on trauma, relational dynamics, narcissistic abuse, and coercive control. I’ve also had the honor of training with Dr. Ramani Durvasula, whose work has profoundly shaped the field of narcissistic abuse recovery.

If something in this recognizes something in you—or you know a woman who might need this space—you can learn more here:

https://www.dolcepea.com/about-3

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Introducing The Sacred Rebellion™ An 8-week live psychoeducational group for women reclaiming themselves after narcissistic abuse & coercive control.

07/04/2026

A renegade is often portrayed negatively as an outlaw, or someone who refuses to obey. The positive version of renegade is something much deeper, and something I align with: Someone who refuses to participate in lies. Someone who questions systems that harm people. Someone who chooses authenticity over belonging. Someone willing to stand apart rather than betray themselves and others. Someone who remembers their humanity, AND the humanity of others, when the culture prefers compliance, dissociation, and abandonment. I won’t participate in the systemic oppression of marginalized voices anymore. We can live our shiny lives of performance and glamorized social media representations of who we pretend to be, or we can actually wake the f🤘🏼ck up, and stand up for what really matters. Go to a nursing home for a day. It’s crystal clear there. Then come home and make a difference. Let’s stop pretending we have it all together, building our gilded ballrooms, when others are lying alone in dirty rooms they should never have to be in, without the money to afford basic dignity. I commit to being a renegade.🖤🏴‍☠️

05/16/2026

My office today.🥳

04/03/2026

For the record. From the actual experts in the field. I do not aim to change anyone’s personal or political beliefs, but this form of so-called “therapy” is deeply unethical and dangerous.

APA Statement | The Supreme Court Decision in Chiles v. Salazar https://ow.ly/MIlM50YBKXJ

03/24/2026

Liminal spaces can feel surreal and uncomfortable. This is why so few people willingly enter the wilderness of their own lives. Rather they stick to the well worn path that is safe, predictable, “stable.” They develop personas to hide their own aching truth. The most important thing I want to tell you is this: You do not have to fully understand this space to inhabit it. Our brains love more than anything to make sense and meaning out of all situations. But surreal doesn’t mean unstable. Often it means: You are in the middle of something that hasn’t fully arrived yet. That’s the disorientation we must learn to tolerate when we’re deep in the backcountry of our own becoming. And here’s the part many of us resist: You actually don’t need to resolve this feeling. Just don’t fight it. Let it be strange. Let it be in-between. And keep putting one real foot in front of the other. Brava! You got out of the boat! Now keep going.

Dr. Karina McGovern Chace🖤

02/09/2026

When nothing makes sense anymore, it isn’t always a mental health crisis. Sometimes it’s a meaning crisis.

Sometimes it’s what happens when the stories that once organized life—work, love, progress, goodness—stop matching reality, and no new shared story has taken their place.

I don’t think people are weak for struggling right now. I think many of us are grieving a world that no longer functions the way we were prepared to inhabit it.

This is what happens when collective trust erodes, when systems lose legitimacy, when truth fragments, and when people are asked to adapt endlessly without meaning, without accountability, and without repair. Many of us are living after a rupture that hasn’t been named.

It feels like we woke up in a world that no longer recognizes the people we were taught to become. The grief comes from realizing that the old maps don’t work—and no one handed us new ones, only demands to keep moving.

I don’t want optimism. I want honesty. I want meaning. I want a way to live with integrity inside whatever this world is becoming. Meaning is oxygen to me. I cannot live without it.

Dr. Karina Chace