Category: Loving Safely

Her No Is a Complete Sentence
Survivor AffirmationI honor my own no.
I honor yours too.
Re [...]

📌Allyship Doesn’t Come With a Dating Requirement — Your Body Was Never Part of the Deal
updated from June 9. 2025
It's so tricky out here these days...
Let’ [...]

“Interrogate Your Choices” Isn’t Advice. It’s a Leash.
It's dating. Cuts WILL be made. But too many people have a problem wit [...]

Before “Domestic Violence”: The History of How Women Finally Named Abuse
For generations, women endured violence that society treated as a priv [...]

You Deserve Safety—Even When You’re Just Trying to Keep Going
Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.W [...]

The Bench at Maple and Ninth: When Men Decide Whether Women Get Boundaries (audio)
In this episode of We Survive Abuse, we step into a modern f [...]

A Mother Daughter Team Teaching Lessons on Teen Dating Violence: Carolyn Mosely and Ortralla Mosely (Resting in Power)
updated from 2/5/25
I exchanged emails with this mother, [...]

THE GIFT OF FEAR | GAVIN DE BECKER | ANIMATED BOOK SUMMARY (video)
In our society we underestimate intuition in favor of logic. I lik [...]

The Myth of Easy Access: Why You Don’t Owe the World Your Self
When people are treated as if others "ought to have access" to them, i [...]

When Did Women Lose the Right to Define “Female”? A Question Worth Sitting With
When did women lose the ability to define “female” based on sex—and wh [...]