Pleasure after trauma isn’t about indulgence. It’s about agency. Choosing sensation — whether emotional, physical, or relational — is a way of reclaiming ownership of the body and its responses. It’s saying, I get to decide what this means now. This isn’t about recreating the past. It’s about rewriting the context. What was once takenContinue reading “Post 2: Pleasure as Agency”
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Conclusion: Holding What Was and What Is
Reclamation doesn’t demand answers or outcomes. It doesn’t ask you to define yourself by what you want or don’t want next. It simply allows room for complexity. You can honor the pain that shaped you and still choose experiences that feel different now. One does not erase the other. They coexist — quietly, honestly, withoutContinue reading “Conclusion: Holding What Was and What Is”
Rewriting the Words I Once Used to Survive
These words were written by a version of me who didn’t yet know what I know now. She wrote from instinct, from pain she couldn’t name, from feelings she hadn’t learned how to carry safely. I don’t rewrite her to correct her — I rewrite her to understand her. There was truth in those lines,Continue reading “Rewriting the Words I Once Used to Survive”
Living Between the Past and the Future
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why? I used to live almost entirely in the past. Not because I wanted to stay there, but because it shaped how I learned to survive. The past taught me patterns, warning signs, and ways to protect myself when things felt uncertain orContinue reading “Living Between the Past and the Future”
Reading Trauma Mama: Velvet & Taboo 