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I Keep Choosing the Same Person with a Different Face – Trauma Bonding
The continuing story of Mere
She is in her forties now.
She left the first one after seven years.
She told herself she had finally chosen better. New city, new beginning, new person. She believed it completely.
The second one looked nothing like the first. Different face, different voice, different reasons she fell. It took four years before she realised she was standing in the same room with different wallpaper.
By the third time, she stopped telling people. Because how do you explain that you are not stupid, not weak, not choosing this — and yet here you are again?
When Love Became a Debt – Epigenetics, Parentification, and the Weight of ‘Not Good Enough’
The Whakapapa of Not Being Good Enough – The Weeds of Anxiety – The Closing Conversation
The Whakapapa of Not Being Good Enough – The Weeds of Anxiety
Where Does Your Wanting Come From? – Tracing the Whakapapa of ‘Wants and Needs’
Do You Need It, or Do You Want It?
A Te Poutama o te Ora reflection on desire, clarity, and the wisdom of knowing yourself