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Leah Carey, Relationship Coach

Helping you break free from high-control childhoods — whether it’s Purity Culture, narcissistic abuse, cults, or just growing up in a bat-shit crazy patriarchy.

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Let's Marry Harry : green lights & red flags

Thoughts on character, exes, intimacy, and asking for what you need

The Ultimatum : Is Hayley really the problem?

How emotional abuse can make healthy reactions look irrational

He Asked Twice

Why consent is more complicated than “yes means yes”

Why So Many Women Say They’ve Been Raped — and So Few Men Know a Rapist

With yesterday’s deeply unnerving news about the Rape Academy (even typing those words makes me want to crawl out of my skin and go somewhere to die), I think we need to have a conversation about what “rape” is.

Apparently, I’m That Friend

Which is confusing, because I don’t think of myself that way at all

Why it’s easier to protest a king than confront a friend

We carry signs only when it’s someone we can afford to lose

Why MAGA wants you to blanket train your child

My conversation with Tia Levings about teaching children to be still and shut up

Reading Ilya Rozanov through the lens of trauma

Trauma, hypervigilance, and survival instincts in Heated Rivalry

Dating with a jacked-up nervous system

Five first dates and why I’m walking away from good men

Heated Rivalry and narcissistic abuse

Reading Ilya Rozanov’s behavior through the lens of childhood abuse