Family Predators: What You Can Do, Part 8

Throughout my series on Family Predators, I've talked about family predator culture and its impact on one's personal life. In today's final post of the series, I want to look beyond survival and escaping to changing the story. In previous posts I said I stopped enabling family predator culture in my life by confronting my …

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Family Predators: Things I Want You to Know, Part 7

For more than a week I have been discussing the family predator culture, how it continues, how to heal, why people leave. I have shared part of my story and other people's stories, but today I want to talk about your story. If you are a victim of the predator victim culture, there are things …

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Family Predators: It Stops with You, Series Part 6

In part four of this series, Family Predators, I talked about why it is hard it is to walk away from family predator culture. However, I know quite a few people who have done it, including myself, and with my friends' permission, I would like to share why and how we walked away. For a …

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Family Predators: How Did You Heal?, Series Part 5

I have considered not writing this because I don't want to oversimplify this subject. I have written from my experience, and I know others who have hell stories because of their family's predators--yes, sometimes more than one--and their family protecting those predators. I want to respect their stories and their healing journeys which are more …

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Family Predators Create Easy Targets: My Story, Series Part 2

When I was growing up, there was an uncle that made comments on my body. When I started to go through puberty, he often remarked on how much I had "filled out" since the last time I saw him. He made said things like I'd need a bigger bra if I kept growing at this …

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