There’s a mystery to women that men often romanticise. We write poems about it. We fantasise about "figuring them out." We confuse unpredictability for magic and silence for depth. But maybe the truth...
I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen after Daddy caught me with a dick in my mouth. But before that, me and him watched storms. Drawn to the black clouds, we sat on the front porch, fat rain dro...
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I didn’t expect a children’s movie to wreck me. But here we are. By the third time I watched The Wild Robot , I realized it wasn’t just a movie—it was a full-blown existential gut punch wrapped in chi...
There's a truth that's been circulating online lately, one that's stopping people in their tracks: "You'll never feel safe with someone who gets angry at you for being upset over something they did."...
Think of it like this: Imagine you’re lost in the desert, desperately thirsty. Suddenly, someone offers you a bottle of water. Does it matter if that person hurt you before? Does it matter if the wate...
What society thinks recovering from sexual violence involves: learning to have sex again What recovery from sexual violence really involves: learning to breathe without panicking learning to exercise...
You enter a quiet laboratory room. Three people sit silently on chairs, electrodes attached to their wrists. An experimenter turns to you and explains the situation: two of these volunteers will recei...
As Kay Wilson struggled to make her way through a Jerusalem forest after being repeatedly stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist, she distracted herself from her agony by playing the song "Somewhere Over...
Because my husband died very close to the beginning of January, since 2022 I’ve measured time by Years of Widowhood, rather than calendar years. 1 Around the New Year period, my reflections on the pas...
Our culture is inundated with porn. We’ve all seen the gargantuan stats on porn consumption, so I won’t regale you with the numbers here. Of the many who watch porn, a sizeable minority will struggle...
“Nothing destroys a child’s faith like child abuse does.” Victor Vieth A couple of years ago, I was fortunate to attend a two-day training for faith communities put on by child abuse expert and former...
