
Explore The Rift Knowledge Hub — your gateway to understanding narcissistic abuse, healing, identity, and culture through trauma-informed, LGBTQ+-focused education.
The Rift Knowledge Hub is your learning space — a place to understand, rebuild, and reconnect.
Here, education meets empathy. Each series explores a new layer of healing: from surviving coercive control to understanding your own patterns and finally reclaiming your sense of self.
If you’ve arrived here, you’re not just learning — you’re remembering who you are.

Summary:
When manipulation hides behind love, clarity becomes survival.
This first series unpacks coercive control, identity-based abuse, and gaslighting within the LGBTQ+ community — helping you name what happened and start to heal.
Emotional Goal: “You’re not crazy. It happened. Here’s how to survive it.”

Summary:
Healing isn’t just distance — it’s rebuilding.
This series dives into trauma bonding, attachment wounds, and the deep work of reclaiming your autonomy. Learn why we attract manipulators and how to break the cycles that kept you tied.
Goal: “Let’s get curious about our own patterns, heal the roots, and evolve with love.”

Summary:
This is about you — your identity, your depth, and your light.
We’ll explore how pride, shame, and survival blend in the gay experience and how understanding these dynamics frees us from performance and comparison.
Goal: “This is who we are. Let’s own it all — and choose healing over performance.”

Summary:
Once we see the pattern, we can’t unsee it.
This series expands outward — exploring manipulation in media, politics, and culture, and how to protect empathy without losing it.
Goal: “We’re awake now. Here’s how to stay wise, open-hearted, and sane.”

You’ve arrived at the starting point — a space built to teach, remind, and empower.
Every truth you learn here is a step back toward yourself.
The Rift with Rick shares educational and healing insights from lived experience. I’m not a licensed therapist. This site is not a substitute for professional therapy, digital safety, or trauma recovery support. If you suspect monitoring, contact a qualified digital safety specialist or local advocacy group.