How First-Person Shooter Games Affect Our Kids
My media psychology professor is an awkwardly charming, middle-aged white man with thick rimmed glasses who ocassionally disrupts our facebook browsing during his class by pointedly saying 'I can't...
View ArticleWays I Fucked Up (So Far)
During this process, I realised how susceptible we all are to being abusive. Abuse is so prevalent, and so normalized, and often so much a function of our gut reactions that it is easy to do, without...
View ArticleResponse to Dr. Elisabeth Sheff’s Critique of Voices from the Game Changer
I believe we are working towards the same goal, which is to make sure our community is safe and one where abuse cannot flourish. With that in mind, I thank you for your unpaid labour and your...
View ArticleNurturance Culture In Action: polyamory #metoo
Through this work, an advance reader copy of Turn This World Inside Out, The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran found its way into my hands. And although at 140 pages it’s only little, its...
View ArticlePolyamory’s #metoo
To Whom It May Concern Iam currently working as part of a transformative justice process and assisting a survivor pod, a team of people set up to support those harmed by Franklin Veaux's behaviours in...
View ArticleIs an Open Relationship Stressful for Kids?
More loving adults is awesome, right? Parenthood is a little like polyamory, in that it’s a massive challenge and nothing turns out quite the way you thought. Beyond the fundamental differences, both...
View ArticleThe Broken Woman
Illegitimacy was in my blood, it was my blood and it had tainted me. By the circumstances of my birth my honour was smirched, I was already broken. The post The Broken Woman appeared first on Louisa...
View ArticleVignette Normality
Normality is subjective. In the beginning everyone thinks they’re normal, and projects their subjective normality on the world around them. People differing from our own ideas of normal, are weird....
View ArticleHow Maternal Narcissism Grinds Self-Confidence into Dust
It's what they call a spectrum disorder. And until I knew this, I couldn't bring myself to admit that there might have been something wrong with her. The post How Maternal Narcissism Grinds...
View ArticleThe Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier
For those adoptees who lose their mother before the separation of the self occurs, they will manifest a primal wound. A deep and lasting impact. The post The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier appeared...
View ArticleConfessions of a Privileged Eyelash Puller
Who would have guessed that the high achieving little girl who was--to all the outside world--a perfect privileged child, was so busy hating herself? The post Confessions of a Privileged Eyelash Puller...
View ArticleCoraline and “The Other Mother” Narrative
Coraline will give her eyes, she will sacrifice her unique perspective on the world, and lose herself to her other mother's vision of herself. The post Coraline and “The Other Mother” Narrative...
View ArticleThe Maternal Narcissist
How it became an obsession to become a mother, a perfect mother at any cost. But how no matter how hard she tried, she failed. The post The Maternal Narcissist appeared first on Louisa Leontiades.
View ArticleWe Are The Ugly Ducklings
But there is one aspect of identity which will never be properly resolved.I look like no-one I know...not even me. Because who is "me"? The post We Are The Ugly Ducklings appeared first on Louisa...
View ArticleHuffpo | 5 Hard Truths About Adoption, Adoptive Parents don’t want to Hear
Adoptees. We're overrepresented in mental health settings, often at two-and-a-half to six times the rate of non-adopted children. The post Huffpo | 5 Hard Truths About Adoption, Adoptive Parents don’t...
View ArticleIs Adoption “Need” At First Sight?
It was need at first sight for both of us. We needed each other. I needed to be taken care of. My adoptive mother needed a baby to heal her wounds. The post Is Adoption “Need” At First Sight? appeared...
View ArticleThe Deforming Mirror Free Chapter
Get a free chapter of "The Deforming Mirror" research on adoption trauma & adult relationships. The post The Deforming Mirror Free Chapter appeared first on Louisa Leontiades.
View ArticleCultural Narratives (And The Stories We Tell Ourselves)
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