Marie’s Blog
Afraid of My Imagination: Reclaiming What Was Locked Away
This piece explores the fear of imagination after a life shaped by religious gaslighting and emotional suppression, and the slow, painful process of rebuilding reality from the inside out.
Learning to Be Real: Reclaiming the Self After Disembodiment
This piece explores the raw, confusing process of waking up to your own embodied self after a life shaped by religious dissociation and cultural erasure, and the integrity required to narrate that becoming in public.
Reclaiming the Self After Religious and Cultural Erasure
This post explores the raw, existential process of waking up inside your own body and identity after decades of spiritual dissociation, religious indoctrination, and societal gaslighting.
Super Troopers, Misogyny, and the Cost of the Joke
This post revisits the cult comedy Super Troopers through a 2025 lens, examining how normalized sexual harassment shaped a generation’s humor—and what it felt like to grow up knowing the joke was on you.
Is Military Training Brainwashing or Sacred Transformation?
This piece explores the dual nature of military conditioning—how it can strip individuality and enforce obedience, while also creating deep bonds, purpose, and structure for those who serve.
When the Sky Breaks Open: Alien Dreams and Apocalyptic Fear
A reflection on an alien dream that unearthed lingering fears of collapse, surveillance, and the fragile line between vigilance and overwhelm in a post-religious world.
How Patriarchy Shapes the Human Psyche
This piece explores patriarchy not as a vague cultural problem but as a structured system of control rooted in ownership, lineage, and fear—tracing its influence from ancient history to your nervous system.
How the Self Develops—and What Happens When It Doesn’t
This essay explores the foundations of human behavior through the lens of self-development, adaptation, and what it costs us when the self is shaped by survival instead of safety.
Understanding Narcissism Without the Pitchforks
A deep dive into the roots of narcissism, how it forms, what it looks like in relationships, and why some people become hollowable while others stay intact.
Why Thinking About Aliens and Abuse Survivors Hurts So Much
A reflection on cosmic terror, psychological manipulation, and the quiet power of reclaiming your inner voice—tied together by watching The Shrink Next Door and wondering who we become when no one intervenes.