by Yulinda Renee | Jul 23, 2025 | Article, Edge of Excellence, KPSA, Mental Illness
What Power Looks Like When It’s Held With Care There’s a difference between consensual sadism and what we’re watching unfold on the world stage. In kink, sadists don’t just cause pain. They hold it. They honor the impact. They check in. They stop when told. They...
by Yulinda Renee | Jun 29, 2025 | Article, Edge of Excellence, Therapeutic BDSM
We are living in a time of deep instability. Collective stress is high, people are overwhelmed, and the nervous system rarely gets a break. The world doesn’t feel safe, not in our bodies, not in our communities, and not in the systems that are supposed to protect us....
by Yulinda Renee | Jun 5, 2025 | Article, Edge of Excellence, KPSA, Therapeutic BDSM
A real-life comment, a grounded response, and the work of building legitimacy beyond legacy systems. Recently, I received a strong critique in response to a post I made in a kink science group about Therapeutic BDSM™. The commenter came in swinging with a polished and...
by Yulinda Renee | May 26, 2025 | CPKP, Edge of Excellence, KPSA, Therapeutic BDSM
There’s a shift happening in the healing world, and I’m in the middle of it. After years of teaching, supervising, building programs, and contributing to platforms that weren’t fully mine, I made a decision that was both terrifying and necessary: I left. I stepped...
by Yulinda Renee | May 21, 2025 | Edge of Excellence, Personal Reflections, Poetic Prose
Finally. Completion.A circle closing. And a lone person standing in the center.Bloody. Beaten. Sword tipped downward in surrender.Surrendering to the acknowledgement that this took everything.This victory cost more than they reckoned. It cost them peace,...
by Yulinda Renee | May 20, 2025 | Article, Edge of Excellence
There’s a conversation many people avoid having in kink spaces, especially in public. Sometimes it’s fear of stigma. Sometimes it’s the emotional labor of constantly explaining nuance to people who’ve already made up their minds. And sometimes, it’s the pressure to...
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