SOARING SISTER STORIES
Personal essays, practical reflections, and resources for healing after silence, coercive control, and toxic relationships.
More stories to carry with you.
Silent Treatment and Black Love
Breaking Patterns
Ama K. Karikar
Staying for the Kids vs. Leaving for the Kids
How the silent treatment and emotional abuse shape what children learn about love
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
Sometimes Marriage Isn’t a Flex. It’s a Curse.
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
At Least They Did Not Beat You Up!
Why the silent treatment is equivalent to physical violence
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
Can Silence be a Weapon?
Understanding the Silent Treatment as a Form of Coercive Control
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
How the Silent Treatment Destroys Self-Esteem and How to Rebuild Yours
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
What to Say to Relatives Who Criticize You for Divorcing Due to the Covert Abuse of the Silent Treatment
You deserve your peace, health, and safety, regardless of what relatives have say.
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
5 Signs You Are Engaging in Toxic Empathy
I sat on my friend Sister Pam's patio couch in tears.
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
How to Respond When Someone Gives You the Silent Treatment
Scripts Included
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
Why You Freeze, Shut Down, Panic or Accommodate During the Silent Treatment
And How to Recover
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
Why Black Women Normalize Emotional Neglect
Why Black Women Normalize Emotional Neglect and How to Break the Cycle
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
Three Reasons Why the Silent Treatment is Damaging to Children
Children Live What They Learn so the Silent Treatment Shapes the Next Generations
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.