Alice Perle (pen name) shares reflections on context, family dynamics, and the resolve to keep going and to keep growing. Survivors and others affected by SSA, often carry a unique kind of silence, not just from the harm or abuse itself, but from trying to safely navigate the dynamics within the family that surrounded it. Beyond disclosure, the issues that compound trauma begin, especially when families are unsupported, and disclosures come in adult life, not in childhood. In the sub-title of Resolve are the words ‘healthy inquiry’, because it felt healthy, to go squirrel around, to understand what I could, then take it in and see if that mattered to…