Family and Parental Favoritism: PART 2 Healing Starts with Self-Responsibility: The Community Can Sc

What if healing wasn't about being rescued-but about reclaiming your story from within?

In Family and Parental Favoritism Part 2: Healing Starts with Self-Responsibility; The Community Can Scaffold, Not Substitute, we follow Denver-a young man wrongfully accused due to systemic failure and emotionally silenced by his older brother-as he navigates the aftermath of a family implosion triggered by trauma, violence, and misunderstood loyalty. Facing detention, betrayal, and the weight of a paralyzing truth, Denver learns that healing isn't offered by systems or saviors-it's built slowly, painfully, and intentionally from within.

With a mother spiraling into depression and his siblings placed in government-facilitated housing, the family that once lived in a half-million-dollar house finds itself stripped of structure and identity. Because sometimes a house is not a home-and survival doesn't always mean safety.

Told through chapters that interweave narrative storytelling with trauma psychology, this book is not just a continuation-it's a confrontation. A reckoning with silence, inherited pain, and the myth that love always looks like support.

For readers of trauma literature, narrative nonfiction, and character-driven healing stories, this is more than a reflection-it's a guidepost. If you've ever had to trust your truth before others believed in you, this story will resonate deeply.

Reclaim your own.

The name Denver was chosen for a reason-it means green valley. Like healing, it is quiet, steady, and always growing-even when no one is watching. However purple it may feel-for the memories of royalty I'll always carry about Denver-Denver is also the name of my late friend, whose resilience left a mark on everyone who knew him. No one was more worthy to embody this character than him.