FAMILY AND PARENTAL FAVORITISM: Healing Starts with Self-Responsibility: The Community Can Scaffold, Not Substitute
What if healing wasn't about being rescued—but about reclaiming your story from within?
Family and Parental Favoritism Part 2: Healing Starts with Self-Responsibility; The Community Can Scaffold, Not Substitute is the continuation of Part 1, and follows Denver as he finds his voice—and through it, his healing.
A young man wrongfully accused due to systemic failure and emotionally silenced by his older brother, Denver navigates the aftermath of a family implosion triggered by trauma, violence, and misunderstood loyalty. Facing detention, betrayal, and the weight of a paralyzing truth, he 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 home 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 based psychological fiction, 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 with purpose—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—it 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.
Lest we forget,
Denver Chidindi