Tag: literal trust

Taking relational assurances, stated permissions, care, welcome, or commitments substantially at their expressed meaning rather than assuming an unstated relational rule.

  • Captivity Logic

    How a closed threat system becomes compulsory from within. Captivity Logic describes what can happen when a person must continually live inside a consequential threat system without usable reprieve while agency, voice, autonomy, independent reality, or differentiation cannot be exercised…

  • When the Old Belief Has Evidence

    Why historically reinforced threat predictions require more than being labeled cognitive distortions Some beliefs persist because they were learned early. Others persist because life kept providing evidence for them. That distinction matters. A survivor may enter therapy carrying a prediction…