Life After the Shitshow

Amy McCrimmon is documenting a life lived under sustained pressure. After the Storm records the decisions, compromises, and consequences that accumulate when events do not resolve and responsibility does not lift.

By Amy

· Launched 5 months ago

A lifetime of mess, love, and refusing to break — welcome if you're still figuring it out too.

Feb 1 • Amy

Recent posts

1. I Refuse to Build My Future Around My Trauma
   Why I walked away from the thing I seemed uniquely qualified to do.
   Jun 18 • Amy

2. I Think Some Men Love Strong Women for the Wrong Reasons
   And sometimes the first person who offers comfort gets access to parts of you they never should have reached that quickly.
   Jun 4 • Amy

3. That Will Be the Last Time He Ever Calls Me Names.
   Jumping out of a moving vehicle (fine, it was slowly rolling to a stop) was how it ended — but this is what finally made me open my fucking eyes.
   May 28 • Amy

4. When the Words Lose Meaning, Victims Lose Protection
   A firsthand look at real narcissistic abuse, family court trauma, and the damage caused by weaponized labels.
   May 23 • Amy

5. They Came for the One Man Actually Doing His Job
   While seniors sit neglected, helpless, and voiceless, the system spends more time protecting reputations than protecting the people dying inside it.
   May 13 • Amy

6. What Stress Is Really Doing To Your Body
   Your body starts whispering long before it starts screaming. LISTEN.
   May 8 • Amy