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Pressing Pause, With Intention
Alice Perle reflects on the power of survivor conversations and shares why she's pressing pause on her weekly blog—to make space for listening, learning, and returning with renewed clarity.
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A Horse with No Name
I’m thinking about names today. I’ve had conversations these past few months at the Blue Borage Conversation Café events with some of you. Beyond my connections here, it has been incredible to be present with so many compassionate and brave, lived experience people, advocates, educators, and professionals, choosing to come together in that safe space to talk and learn. We lived with this in silence for so long, and that no longer has to be how it is. Thank you for showing up; however, you show up I deeply believe in the power of conversation and communication. I’m talking not just in therapy, writing comments on posts, responding in peer…
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No Failures, Only Lessons: A Reflection on Growth
I never imagined I’d find myself deeply immersed in personal development, let alone speaking about it. In the early days, I was a survivor who hadn’t wanted therapy, someone riding the relentless waves of change in a company I had built from the ground up. I was focused on day-to-day operations, not self-reflection. And like so many, I didn’t yet have words for what was happening beneath the surface, the cPTSD, trauma responses, patterns shaped long before I understood them. Growth doesn’t always look graceful. Sometimes it looks like exhaustion, like making hard business decisions, like putting one foot in front of the other. And sometimes, if we’re lucky, we…
