Tag: usable reprieve

Usable Reprieve is a meaningful reduction in threat, demand, vigilance, responsibility, or consequence sufficient for the survivor’s system to experience actual rest, recovery, or decreased activation. A pause in events is not usable reprieve if the larger field of threat or responsibility remains active.

  • 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…