Wellness notes from Firefly 

My upcoming workshop focuses on protecting your peace during the holidays after abuse. I've been thinking about what that means and wanted to explain why I came up with this idea in the first place and how it can help other women getting out of abusive situations. When I got divorced, we decided to split custody 50/50 - each of us would have the kids every other week and we figured out how to share holidays. For reasons that maybe I'll explain at some point, I wasn't able to

TRIGGER WARNING: This essay contains examples of domestic abuse. Please take care of yourself if this might cause you distress. If you want to talk about how I can help you recover from an abusive relationship, I offer free 30 minute sessions. You can make an appointment here . I've been struggling to write this because my first attempts were to write a kind of educational blog with statistics and lists and all that high level stuff. But it just wasn't coming together like I

Gaslighting: psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the...

Women who are victims of abuse are often silenced by the fear of not being believed. Trigger warning - this post contains discussion of...

Trigger warning: I'm going to talk about domestic violence so please take care of yourself if this is a triggering topic for you. This...

Do you sometimes feel like your mind is disconnected from your body? Those of us who lived through sustained trauma learned to ignore the...