You have officially escorted me into a night of suicidality. I needed to be treated for trauma in 1977 and again in 1978. Then again in 1979. In each case, not minor trauma, major multiple sexual offender in a cult, parental abandonment for two months with a cult where the sex abuse was happening, Then sexual abuse from an older female cousin, that continued until 1984. But since I didn't get those traumas treated, a couple dozen more related traumas came from them. Rapes that I wouldn't have experienced if I wasn't in high-risk situations. The inability to carry a pregnancy to term, because of my mental and physical health. The inability to form a faith or spirituality because of the cult's betrayal of my trust.

You make yourself available on the internet. A publically resourced, government-founded network. But, if someone from outside the "norm" of shiny, happy people has something to say about toxic positivity, it can't be seen as worthy of being criticism. It has to be worthy of only sarcasm and victim blaming. …

Are people using them incorrectly necessarily? Most of the people I know would be ashamed to identify anything less than what I have experienced to be trauma (three rapes, sexual abuse when I was six, foster care when I was ten, physical abuse and neglect from parents, a stroke, having…

I think this is what struck me. I left Medium a year or so ago to spend time on TikTok making videos. It turned out to be wildly more successful than writing for me. …

When you write memoir-based pieces, it feels like it’s all kinda already out there, but… I was a probation officer right after college graduation for three months while my internship supervisor went on maternity leave. It was one part hilarious, because of my appearance, which is not intimidating. I have…