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September 2025

Psychological Punishment in Childhood: The Day My Mother’s Partner Hid My Red Coat
No bruises, but lasting scars — how a strange 'lesson' shaped my trust, fear, and sense of safety.
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The Forgotten Wife: Harriet Shelley, Suicide, and the Erasure of Women’s Pain
On World Suicide Prevention Day, we remember a young woman written out of history — and the patterns of silence that still echo.
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Catherine of Aragon: 'No Way'
Survivor of Patriarchy, Gaslighting, and a King with a God Complex
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Absurd Rules: The Microwave Ban
He outlawed microwaves, but somehow I was the one slowly losing the will to live.
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September 2025 Goals:
Debt, Dreams, and Dough (Literally)
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Debt Update #1: Surviving Economic Abuse and Coerced Debt
How I am tackling nearly £40,000 of coerced debt during the cost of living crisis, one payment at a time.
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Five Shillings for Safety: Catherine Doran and Domestic Violence in 1830s Dublin
What one woman’s testimony reveals about survival, silence, and the price of justice in nineteenth-century Ireland
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Ordinary Things, Extraordinary Truths
How cupboards, mugs, salt, and even nursery rhymes reveal the hidden patterns of abuse - and how reclaiming them helps us tell the story ourselves.
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