But they never acted that way toward me!

How we enable abusers with our need to make sense of the world and how we can stop doing it.

Whether its child abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, or another type of abuse, if your response to hearing a story about a person who has used harm against another has been “I just can’t believe it. They have never acted that

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Midwest working-mom, runner, wife, friend, and sometimes yogi. Licensed counselor. I write about being a human in this wild world.

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Nikki T

Midwest working-mom, runner, wife, friend, and sometimes yogi. Licensed counselor. I write about being a human in this wild world.