Archive - LibbyIsComplex

No Return: When Healing Has No Home

The hero’s journey is one of therapy’s favorite stories.

Apr 22 • Libby Banks

The First Step Is Not the Conclusion

Recently on Threads, discourse around “being disabled but not autistic” has been frequent.

Apr 8 • Libby Banks

March 2026

The Signs Were Deliberately Obscured

Content warnings: Intimate partner violence/abuse, sexual assault (statistical mention, not depicted), coercive control, gaslighting, body dysmorphic…

Mar 17 • Libby Banks

Compression as Neurodivergent Praxis

Mar 3 • Libby Banks

February 2026

Pacing as Resistance

Dynamic Disability and the Refusal to Earn Rest

Feb 17 • Libby Banks

Smart or Oh So Pleasant? I Dissociated Into Both

Feb 3 • Libby Banks

January 2026

The House I Already Knew: Reading Piranesi as Dissociative Architecture

Note: This essay discusses Piranesi’s central mystery and transformation.

Jan 20 • Libby Banks

Still, I Became A Therapist

Jan 6 • Libby Banks

December 2025

Radical Coherence: Why Everything Connects to Everything (And That's Not a Conspiracy)

Most of us learn one kind of coherence in school - A leads to B leads to C.

Dec 30, 2025 • Libby Banks

Kindness as Repudiation

The TikTok comment stung: “Your kindness is just fawning/a trauma response.”

Dec 23, 2025 • Libby Banks

When Self-Compassion Doesn't Work

Dec 16, 2025 • Libby Banks

Anyone Can Cook: Why Exceptionalism in Ratatouille Works (and The Incredibles Doesn't)

I have complex feelings about exceptionalism narratives.

Dec 9, 2025 • Libby Banks

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