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July 2025

Smart or Oh So Pleasant? I Dissociated Into Both
Elwood P.
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Libby Banks
Four Subtypes? Why That’s the Least Interesting Part of the New Autism Study
Scientific American recently published an article about a Nature Genetics paper that SA described as having identified “four subtypes of autism…
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Libby Banks
What Venus de Milo Taught Me About "Broken" Bodies
(And why Wyatt calling me "masterpiece" wasn’t just romantic - it was precise)
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Libby Banks
High-Masking Isn’t Low Needs - It’s Expensive Survival
"You seem fine!" they proclaimed, congratulating my camouflaged collapse, mistaking borrowed functionality for comfort.
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Reclaiming Rogers’ Revolution From Therapy’s Neutrality Trap
My first weeks of graduate school, I learned two things about Carl Rogers: first, that I could mirror "unconditional positive regard" so perfectly in…
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Libby Banks

June 2025

Refuge Architecture: Building Sanctuary in a Burning System
Purists often demand bonfires.
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Libby Banks
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Animal Crossing, Biff the Hippo, and the Revolutionary Power of Googling Your Pixelated Pals
The Paralyzing Screen
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Libby Banks
The Books That Wait for You
The first book I read after the drought wasn’t the heavy therapeutic tome I had expected to break the curse.
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Libby Banks
Sanctuary Walls, Not Cages: How Boundaries Free Radical Congruence
Two of therapy’s most sacred myths insist:
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The Art of Strategic Disappearing: How Fawning and Flopping Build Sanctuaries in Hostile Systems
They call me “spacey” when I’m running complex threat calculus.
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Libby Banks
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