Day 591. Survivors found: 8 I’m a few days past the official week-long celebration, but it’s never a bad time to honor Banned Books, right? For all the physical torture Conrad Boeding meted out – the suffocation, the beatings, the dehydration, the sleep deprivation – at least I was allowed to read books in the [...]
Day 358. Survivors found: 6 O’ how I dream of a life where the biggest gripe I might muster about my childhood shrink is that he’s a condescending, comparatively sheltered windbag glutted on fundie psychobabble and phony empowerment-speak! Not really. My dreams are more interesting than that. But you know what I mean, right? …As [...]
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Posted 19 February 2009
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Day 309. Survivors found: 6 Who really has time for lengthy resolutions? Suffice to say, this year the kid gloves are coming off. Happy 2009, my friends and fellow bastards. Hope your holiday was a good one. Oh, this is going to be such an interesting year.
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Posted 01 January 2009
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Day 263. Survivors found: 5 Advocates for Children in Therapy (ACT) has updated its proponents section with a new page on Conrad “Connie” Boeding, the attachment therapist who tortured me. To help elucidate Boeding’s quotes and his “velvet box” concept, I’d first like to highlight an excerpt from Maia Szalavitz’s excellent book, Help At Any [...]
Day 162. Survivors found: 2 Courtesy of AP | ED ANDRIESKI This is Connell Watkins, photographed while arriving at district court in Golden, Colorado on April 16, 2001. As you can see, there is nothing particularly out of the ordinary about her. She is neither deformed nor striking in any sense. Black pools of hellfire [...]
