The Distance Between Us: Part Four
You cannot reach across a rupture from a body that is still in alarm. This is not sentiment. It is how human beings...
MUSA
Writing on psychology, relationships, the moment, and the fragility of being human
Books and essays by Dr. Angela (Niki) Serravalle.
Meet the Author
Dr. Angela (Niki) Serravalle
Dr. Niki Serravalle is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and the founder of the Center for Balanced Living. Her clinical work centers on trauma-informed care, psychological evaluation, and the integration of nature-based and somatic approaches into therapeutic practice. She writes MUSA from her practice in Delaware, where the clinical and the personal continually meet. Her first book, The Stories We Told: The Dance of a Codependent and a Compulsive Liar, is forthcoming.
Why I Write
In Latin and Italian, Musa is the muse, the figure who animates writing, thinking, and creative work. To write in the company of a muse was to listen carefully and give shape to what mattered most. It was writing with intention. MUSA is where I house my writing, a space where the clinical, the literary, and the personal meet on the page.
The Book
The Stories We Told
The Dance of a Codependent and a Compulsive Liar
The Stories We Told is the memoir of a clinical psychologist who knew the signs and stayed anyway, a reckoning with love, deception, and the long work of coming home to herself.
Recent Essays
From the Desk
The Distance Between Us: Part Three
Part Three: The Body That Was Left Being cut off by someone you love is a strange kind of grief, because everything...
The Distance Between Us: Part Two
Part Two: What Distance Solves, and What It Does NotI am going to say the thing estrangement advice usually dances around. Cutting...
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