Author Archives: kristinatehrani

Falling Down Movie Message

Finally, okay not finally because it’s been available since the 1990s, but anyways a movie that validates how potentially dangerous it can be to be rude to strangers. You never know what other people are going through just by looking at them. Or driving behind them. Or interacting through the supposed safety of a screenContinue reading “Falling Down Movie Message”

Rant about Nations and War

Show recommendation for those into the whole “Middle Ages” stuff. Last week I binged The Spanish Princess which I expected to completely suck because I didn’t like the White Princess at all and I kind of thought I knew everything there was to know about Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII- but this show surprisedContinue reading “Rant about Nations and War”

The Slow Loss of my Daughter to her Abusive Father

He didn’t want me to have a baby. That’s when it started. He tried to first convince me I was imagining the pregnancy, what purpose that would serve, I don’t know. Then once it was clear, he began to harass and pick at me, hoping I would become so anxious I would have a miscarriage.Continue reading “The Slow Loss of my Daughter to her Abusive Father”

To Shoshana, wherever I May Find Her…

My only daughter. There were so many smiles, so many laughs, so much happiness until we learned that this was temporary. The love would always stay, but dampened, stamped upon, ground out like old pieces of wood…no longer useful to the owner. And owner there is. Despite the life being harvested, nurtured and flourished byContinue reading “To Shoshana, wherever I May Find Her…”

There is no “sisterhood”. It’s every woman for herself.

Please don’t send me political stuff right now. I have way too much personal stuff to deal with, I don’t have the time or energy for anything else. Unless it’s advocating for abused children and the family court system- how they have no oversight and give kids away to abusers every single day. If youContinue reading “There is no “sisterhood”. It’s every woman for herself.”

To see or not see….a therapist

I think I’ve overgrown any kind of counseling. I had a great therapist about 8 years ago but she moved so I have intermittently tried others here and there since then.It’s no secret. I don’t find it embarrassing. But I will say I think I’ve outgrown it totally. It’s gotten to the point where theContinue reading “To see or not see….a therapist”

An update on the ongoing, or rather, never stopped, custody battle in which the abuser is successful in removing the child from the safe parent – a message to my daughter “Rose”:

I have written in the past the story of how as the biological mother of my daughter and a survivor of abuse by the man who impregnated me was able to convince family court that he should be primary custodian despite all kinds of evidence of abuse, not just towards me, but towards my olderContinue reading “An update on the ongoing, or rather, never stopped, custody battle in which the abuser is successful in removing the child from the safe parent – a message to my daughter “Rose”:”

Nurses and Trauma Bonding with their Patients

If you look online at how nurses talk about “never keeping in touch with a former patient” “because it’s wrong” or “a gray area” or a whatever self righteous reason, it’s a fact that many health care providers do, in fact, end up befriending a former patient eventually. We meet so many people and takeContinue reading “Nurses and Trauma Bonding with their Patients”