OVERSHARING AS AN ARTFORM
OVERSHARING AS AN ARTFORM
Survival Tactics and Thoughts on the World
Welcome to my blog. If you would like to subscribe, please do so at the bottom of the page. You can either scroll down or click the link at the top right. I'll be primarily writing about my experience in identifying and healing from narcissistic abuse and the web of correlated issues that come with it. It's a lot. Psychological abuse is everywhere and yet most people have no idea what it looks like. I want to change that by exposing what it looked like for me. There will also be some really bad film criticism and political takes. My apologies in advance for those. Unfortunately, politics has become inseparable from my experience. We will all need to heal in the coming years from what's been done to us. I hope to provide some illumination. It's been a while since I've written so my posts are more like rough drafts. I tinker with them a lot. You can follow me on Twitter @ChrisVL.
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Timeout. Backup. Erase. Delete. Unlearn. Breathe. Breathe again. Start Over. Begin from nothing. "It is no measure of health to be well...
Learned Manipulation
Being raised in a family system dominated by a malignant narcissist was hell. I could write a thousand books on the ways I was mistreated...
www.patreon.com/allthingsatonce
I’m on patreon now. More consistent and and expansive interactive content. I’ll be reposting the blog stuff in original form and then ill...
Self Diagnosis
When I started this blog I wasn't really sure what I was doing. I had been reintroduced to journaling while I was in rehab. They also...
Running Without Legs
The last three plus years have been quite a process. A journey of immense joy and unspeakable pain. I've paid a heavy price to claim my...
Morning Connections
My new upstairs neighbor and I just totally bonded. Hour long hang. I’ve got my goal of one real and meaningful conversation a day out of...
Quiet, you!
The amount of needless energy my restless and disobedient mind is spending creating reasons not to go and manufacturing issues with the...
I Feel
Time is moving in ways that make forgetting to take my meds an easy thing to do. I've been getting a little weepy lately and crying at...
A Whole Lot of Nothing
There’s a lot a about meditation and psychedelics and their intersection that exists beyond the scope of description. If that doesn’t...
My Life. A Pandemic Ignored.
So much of Donald Trump's behavior is familiar. Every time I see him I am confronted with a lifetime of lies and life gaslit. I vacillate...
wednesday
Covid-19 has made loneliness and isolation a national pandemic every bit as much as the virus itself. The nation is scared and alone and...
A Prayer for Fred
When I Believe that everyone who draws breath deserves the right to life, liberty and love. I am. A Revolutionary. When I Love myself...
Morning Thoughts
I think the main reason, or at least the largest of a great multitude of reasons, that I'm angry with and exhausted by the state of the...
Moderately Full of Shit
America is fucking exhausting. White people are fucking exhausting. It didn't have to be this way. At any time in this country's history...
Boy Wonder
one whiskey soaked night a long time ago she said in a whisper soaked in sorrow “you used to write me poetry… …and then you changed” and...
Cleanse by Fire
I'm sitting back and watching. Not quietly, but with purpose and with an apprehensive, simultaneous and sometimes overwhelming of dread...
mantra for safety
Breathe in. Breathe out. Feel the heal Believe it is transforming your consciousness Allow it to Know peace Be open to the possibility of...
How to Speak to a Narcissistic Abuser
I have been processing the reality of my relationship of my father since it began. I used to see him as a successful CEO of group of...
A child ignored, lessons learned
We are all products of our perceived experiences. As I've untangled my compromised thought process and inner life I've had to deconstruct...