by Sophia Rehmus | Jan 5, 2026 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Gaslighting
Cassandra, the Prophetess of Troy, whose name in Greek means “she who entangles men,” rejected the sexual advances of the god Apollo in his temple. As punishment, Apollo invalidated Cassandra’s gift of prophecy: henceforth, no one would believe her, even when her...
by Sophia Rehmus | Feb 10, 2025 | CPTSD, Going No Contact, Guest Contributor, Self Care
In July 2020, eleven months since we first went no-contact, my father wrote me his own obituary. Entitled “Who I Am on the Way,” my father described in the third person his early profound religious experiences (“[a]s if he’d written John 21:25” himself), how for him,...
