Trigger Warnings: emotional and spiritual manipulation, coercive control, psychic silencing, trauma-related dissociation, emotional abandonment
In this raw solo journey, Lizza traces the tangled roots of emotional and spiritual manipulation; the invisible leash of "niceness," the deep conditioning of obedience, the swallowing of truth to keep the peace. With a trembling but unwavering voice, she names the trauma of being groomed to be good: the silence she learned to survive, the gaslighting that made her doubt her inner knowing, and the rope of compliance braided into her mouth by years of psychic taming.
This episode is not a polished testimony. It is a rupture. A remembering. A ritual untying.
Through story and sacred pause, Lizza reveals the cost of her silence, and the slow, sacred fire of reclaiming her internal voice. Her words are a balm for those still muzzled by manipulation, and a blaze for those ready to bite through the rope.
You are invited not just to listen, but to witness. Not just to feel, but to remember.
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