There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was) ™ | Kelly Thompson TNWWY | Substack

Recovery from anything that disconnects you from yourself.

Uncovering Wholeness

What Doesn’t Suck?

2025 sucked but there was some cool stuff that kept me going

Dec 21, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Biter: First Love.

My first friend was the boy next door.

Dec 7, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Rayan’s Court: A Thanksgiving Miracle

This is Rayan’s story — a story of survival, resilience, and the healing power of people who choose to care.

Nov 27, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Bonus: And You May Find Yourself: Kelly Thompson in Conversation with Sari Botton

A candid, funny, and deeply human conversation with Sari Botton, author of And You May Find Yourself: Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo, on…

Nov 12, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Sari Botton

1:12:36

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Not Done Growing 🌻✨

Nov 9, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Breaking Generational Cycles

On Estrangement: the state or condition of being made a stranger

Mother as Perfect, Mother as Prodigal

Jan 18 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

There was nothing surprising in Rene Nicole Good’s death.

Jan 16 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Biter: First Love.

My first friend was the boy next door.

Dec 7, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn.” — 1 Corinthians 11:6

Nov 23, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The First Time. The Shock of Being Punched.

Oct 12, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Recovery of Being

Five from the Turning Point

Dec 12, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Rayan’s Court: A Thanksgiving Miracle

This is Rayan’s story — a story of survival, resilience, and the healing power of people who choose to care.

Nov 27, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn.” — 1 Corinthians 11:6

Nov 23, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Not Done Growing 🌻✨

Nov 9, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Truth Has Wings

A Creative Review of Elizabeth Gilbert’s All The Way To The River: Love, Loss, and Liberation

Oct 26, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Writing and Reclamation

Writing from Wholeness

A New Series for conscious writers

Jan 4 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Silent Scream

If You Listen You Will Hear It All Around You

Oct 13, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Once in a Lifetime: A Bird Without A Sky

My substance was not hidden from myself, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. ~Psalms 139:15

Aug 31, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Love Is Not A Victory March

Family adoption, estrangement, complicated grief, trans generational trauma—and the cost of recovery

Jun 23, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Make Art in the Face of Fuck*

100 Days of Creative Resistance

Mar 30, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

religious trauma

1:07:54

WHAT WATER? Said the Fish

A conversation with Eleanor Anstruther about being born and raised in a cult, leaving without a map, and continuing—step by step—toward wholeness.

Jan 28 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Eleanor Anstruther

There was nothing surprising in Rene Nicole Good’s death.

Jan 16 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Biter: First Love.

My first friend was the boy next door.

Dec 7, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn.” — 1 Corinthians 11:6

Nov 23, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Silent Scream

If You Listen You Will Hear It All Around You

Oct 13, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Community Space

9:16

Live with Kelly Thompson TNWWY

A recording from Kelly Thompson TNWWY's live video

20 hrs ago • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

WHAT WATER? Said the Fish

A conversation with Eleanor Anstruther about being born and raised in a cult, leaving without a map, and continuing—step by step—toward wholeness.

Jan 28 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Eleanor Anstruther

1:07:54

Live with Shelley Karpaty

A recording from Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Shelley Karpaty's live video

Jan 17 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Shelley Karpaty

39:18

Five from the Turning Point

Dec 12, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Live with Kelly Thompson TNWWY- A Convo with Michelle Dowd

A talk with Michelle Dowd, author of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult, about her luminous essay “What We Keep,” published in Issue 2 of…

Dec 6, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Michelle Dowd

41:57

Recovery (from anything)

The Whole: Diagnosis

by Paul Crenshaw

Jan 11 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Paul Crenshaw

The W(hole): How to Make a Gingerbread Man Baby: A Holiday How To

The holidays are a time of giving and receiving, for all religious and spiritual traditions (Christianity is preferred however and sometimes required).

Dec 28, 2025 • Emily Rapp Black and Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Live with Kelly Thompson TNWWY- A Convo with Michelle Dowd

A talk with Michelle Dowd, author of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult, about her luminous essay “What We Keep,” published in Issue 2 of…

Dec 6, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Michelle Dowd

41:57

The W(hole): What We Keep

You get used to moving toward the ache, instead of running away from it.

Nov 8, 2025 • Michelle Dowd and Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The W(hole): Mothering With Hungry Ghosts

If I let go, even for a minute, I was sure that I would be pulled into an invisible swirling riptide, currents so strong my body would surrender

Sep 19, 2025 • Deborah Richardson and Kelly Thompson TNWWY

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The W(hole)🕳️ Recovery (from anything)

The W(hole) defines recovery as recovery from anything that disconnects us from ourselves. Essays, memoir, and poetry that remind us: there’s nothing wrong with you (and there never was). (First published as Voices on Addiction at The Rumpus)

There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was) ™

There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was) ™

Recovery from anything that disconnects you from yourself — the beliefs, roles, and identities you inherited or adopted. A return to original wholeness. Writer. LCSW.

Recent posts

On Estrangement: the state or condition of being made a stranger

Mother as Perfect, Mother as Prodigal

Jan 18 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Live with Shelley Karpaty

A recording from Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Shelley Karpaty's live video

Jan 17 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Shelley Karpaty

39:18

There was nothing surprising in Rene Nicole Good’s death.

Jan 16 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Whole: Diagnosis

by Paul Crenshaw

Jan 11 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Paul Crenshaw

Writing from Wholeness

A New Series for conscious writers

Jan 4 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The W(hole): How to Make a Gingerbread Man Baby: A Holiday How To

The holidays are a time of giving and receiving, for all religious and spiritual traditions (Christianity is preferred however and sometimes required).

Dec 28, 2025 • Emily Rapp Black and Kelly Thompson TNWWY

What Doesn’t Suck?

2025 sucked but there was some cool stuff that kept me going

Dec 21, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

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