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From the AI Doll Trend to Barbie: Nostalgic Marketing with Complex Trauma
In the “AI doll trend" nostalgia and tech collide—sweet at first, then potentially reopens inner child wounds. These retro AI images promise inclusion but misrepresent biracial, complex identities, sparking subtle, cumulative triggers of trauma: a quiet ache of exclusion that builds until it overwhelms. Recognizing these episodic slights—off-tone pixels, complex feelings, fractured memories—is the first step to tracing and transforming scripts that say, “Your belonging inconv

Carolyn Lee Downes
Apr 245 min read
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Grief and Loss in Disorganized Attachment Styles
Developing a disorganized attachment style is an early response to surviving a lifetime of anticipatory grief and losses.

Carolyn Lee Downes
Mar 58 min read
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Complex trauma is seeing things through multiple non-integrated perspectives
Complex Trauma is a Perception issue, formed by reinforced perspectives held from the past.The real problem is that these perspectives sneak

Carolyn Lee Downes
Nov 11, 20241 min read
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Make Up: Therapeutic, Traumatic, or both?
Make up can be used for creative self-expression or reinforcement of sociocultural beauty standards for traumatic self-beliefs.

Carolyn Lee Downes
Nov 4, 20243 min read
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