Stolen Reality

Embodied Wisdom: A Walk and a Talk with Dr. Brooke · Feb 28, 2026 · 27m

When someone can’t share reality with you, the work becomes: regulate, reclaim, and decide.

In this evening walk, I explore the gut-level grief of realizing some people truly don’t get it—and may never. When you’re dealing with a structural gaslighter (not a one-off behavior, but a rigid personality pattern), there’s no mutually shared reality—only their framework, and the pressure for you to live inside it.

I talk about why that feels like psychological death, why the need for accountability can become its own kind of captivity, and where all the “frozen fight” energy goes when there’s no…