SOARING SISTER STORIES
Personal essays, practical reflections, and resources for healing after silence, coercive control, and toxic relationships.
More stories to carry with you.
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.
Should I Get A Divorce? 5 Powerful Distinctions That Will Help You Decide
No one gets married to get divorced.
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
From Victim Blaming to Victim Accountability: 5 Ways I Contributed to My Own Abuse
This is not about blame, it is about change.
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
Why the Silent Treatment Hurts More than Words
One of my closest friends told her mother that I was getting a divorce.
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
Why Did a Japanese Husband Refuse to Speak to His Wife for 20 Years?
The answer may disturb you.
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
13 Signs You're Experiencing the Silent Treatment
It is not in your head.
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.
The Silent Treatment vs. Healthy Space: How to Know the Difference
Which is abuse and which is not abuse.
Ama K. Karikari, Esq.