Tag: writing

  • Justice Feels Unjust: Paper Doesn’t Protect People

    ✎ Legal Reflection: When Justice Feels Like a Pinky Promise I live at the end of a dead-end road. On paper, that might sound peaceful. In reality, it’s isolating — especially when your closest neighbours are the surety for your abusive ex’s bail. Yes. The people vouching for his release are the people living closest…

  • The Only Safety I Have Is Printed on a Piece of Paper

    It was supposed to be a simple, happy day.Three kids in the car, music playing, the kind of morning where you’re juggling drop-offs and plans. We were heading to drop one child at work, then the rest of us were going to the mall for a day out — shopping, wandering, and treating ourselves to…

  • Breaking Down and Moving On

    Buying My Own Car (Finally) Some women mark milestones with flowers or jewelry. Me? I will be marking mine with a new (to me) car. Not because I wanted to. Because life forced me to. Let me take you back a few months: I was driving my faithful-but-fragile 2003 Mercedes. She was old, tired, and…

  • Tech Troubles, Triggers, and Taking Control: A Survivor’s Journey

    When you have survived abuse – technology isn’t neutral and can cause reoccurring trauma long after the abuse itself has stopped.It’s not just phones and apps and passwords—it’s the memory of being tracked. Controlled. Hacked. Watched. Silenced. It’s the anxiety that spikes when your screen lights up at midnight. It’s the sick feeling in your…

  • Poetry Helped Heal Me

    When I couldn’t speak the pain—I bled it onto the page I still find it hard some days to explain how I feel. Where therapy sessions open my wounds faster than I can heal them. When the silent screams inside my head won’t silence after a trauma trigger. And then I went to a Poerty…