Work Is Not Family: A Lesson I Never Wanted but Need to Share
“The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.” ~Peter Levine
I was sitting in the conference room at work with the CEO and my abusive male boss.
The same boss who had been love-bombing and manipulating me since I started nine months earlier, slowly pushing my nervous system into a constant state of fight-or-flight.
When I was four months into the job, this boss went on a three-day bender during an overnight work conference at a fancy hotel in Boston.
He skipped client meetings or showed up smelling …
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