When a Court Tells You Something Cruel Is “For the Best”

There is nothing more disorienting than hearing a judge call your family’s heartbreak “necessary.”

Cruelty becomes procedure.
Loss becomes paperwork.
Trauma becomes a bill.

And families like ours are expected to thank the system for the blow.

Somatic Reflection: Where in your body did you feel the last systemic betrayal?

Your outrage is data. It’s the truth of the body.