Category Archives: Predators
How Can We Recognize Human Predators?
Recognizing human predators begins with listening to your body and your relational instincts, especially when they signal unease, confusion, or collapse. Predators often manipulate the connection itself, presenting as charming, helpful, or powerful while slowly distorting your sense of reality, … Continue reading
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Tagged character, pattern, predators, predatory, relationships, support
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What Shapes a Human Predator?
The development of a human predator often begins in early relationships and environments that fail to meet fundamental needs for safety, attunement, empathy, and mutual respect. When a child is repeatedly treated as an object, used to meet another person’s … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, aggression, connection, development, fear, harm, pain, predators, safety, systems, unsafety
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Understanding the Predator-Prey Dynamic Through IPNB
The dynamic between the predator and the victim involves complex layers of relational manipulation, nervous system responses, and emotional regulation (or dysregulation), which deeply affect both the predator’s and the victim’s neurobiological processes. Through the lens of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), … Continue reading
The Most Dangerous Doctors Are the Safest
A system reveals its values by how it responds to vulnerability versus harm. In healthcare, when a doctor admits to struggling with substance use or emotional distress, the response is often punitive or shaming. Instead of being met with support … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, accountability, brand, cover-up, hospitals, image, justice, Mental Health, physician health, power, predators, substance abuse, systems
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Predator in Plain Sight: The USCG Photo That Speaks Volumes
This is the moment a Coast Guardsman sexually assaulted me. You won’t see it if you’re not looking. Most people wouldn’t. That’s the nature of this kind of violation. It’s subtle enough to be dismissed by outsiders, but unmistakable to … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, BM2, Coast Guard, Coastguardsman, Coasties, cover-up, Hampton Roads Sector, power structure, protection, safety, sailing, sexual Assault, US Coast Guard, USCG, Virginia, voyage
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One Nation Under Jeffrey Epstein
What happens when the rich and powerful decide predators are more valuable than justice? Even the president’s followers are pissed off. And they should be. This isn’t a red or blue issue. It’s not partisan. It’s the fact that Jeffrey … Continue reading
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Tagged 47, Epstein, Epstein files, Maxwell, predators, Sex Abuse, sexual predators, tapes, trafficking
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Predator Week Begins Soon!
Predator Week begins soon! The Trauma Aware America website and Facebook page will feature numerous posts, images, quotes, and resources for understanding predators, how they get away with it, and how we can protect ourselves. Blog posts include: Who Do … Continue reading
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Tagged abusers, connection, institutional betrayal, IPNB, predators, safety, systems, targets
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