Growing up in chaos can train your nervous system for war. What people call “drama” is often hypervigilance learned in unsafe environments. This reflection explores how survival skills get misunderstood and what it takes to unlearn them.

Some of these men are hoping we’ve forgotten who they were. Or worse… hoping we’ve forgotten who we are. The truth is, they’re not sorry.

I have done everything in my power to protect myself and my children from further abuse, yet the legal system continues to fail us….