Wasn't going to say anything about last night's event, but actually I'm pretty proud of how I showed up, and it factors heavily into the theme in this group of role models.
DA/DV is a hard subject to engage people on, I'm of the opinion I don't owe anyone my experiences with it & also I've seen audiences disengage out of discomfort.
I chose to speak about my observations & growth as a survivor rather than my time as a victim with candour & inadvertent inappropriate humour (some of those who follow me on insta will have seen one of my absolute corkers 🤦🏼♀️😂)
The song linked below describes my ex husband to a tee and I referenced it heavily. I commented partially in jest on one of posts this week that I'm my family's generational wealth, but I'm actually more like Gandalf screaming "you shall not pass!" at generational trauma because I realised my ex wasn't the only man in my life it describes perfectly...this was a generational issue. My Father set the benchmark for my brother as a man & to which I held other men, and it was a bullshit macho strawman. Listing the things he's afraid of was genuinely empowering...starting with frogs and ending with "speaking to a fucking therapist."
Afterwards someone asked me "how bad was it?"
And all I could think to say was that even now my automatic response to being badly hurt is to laugh.
Either they get it or they don't...I hope they don't.
(I also highly recommend "Good Boy" which is her thoughts on the Manosphere/Red Pill folks.)