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Part III — Attachment: Repairing the First Wound
In the Hope Model, attachment is the first repair. Patricia, Kathleen, and Shirley showed me how it begins.
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Survival: The First Dimension of Hope
From The Second Silence — essays on the architecture of hope Part II — Survival: Reframing shame as evidence of endurance, not failure.
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What We Kept in the Toolbox
The unexpected lessons of grief, mugwort, and machinery
 • JoAnn Elizabeth Stevelos
This Is Not a Hoax. It’s America’s Shame.
Survivors know: silence isn’t neutrality. It’s complicity.
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The Second Silence: For Autumn
She was ten years old. She played piano. She should still be here.
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Sleeping Giants and the Weight of Complicity
René Denfeld’s Sleeping Giants and the quiet reckoning of vulnerable children’s survival: "I was a young mother when I first heard of HOLDING TIME."
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Hands Holding the Void
Exploring the Power of Emptiness and Transformation Through Art, Philosophy, and the Void
 • JoAnn Elizabeth Stevelos
Dream Alibis
Dream Alibis
Dream Alibis explores the complexities of trauma, grief, and healing, offering honest reflections on the things we bury and the truths we must face to reclaim our own narratives and the world of our own making.
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