About Celebrity Graffiti

Picture this: a woman with two doctorates, four published books, 26 certificates in healing, and Harvard training in neuroscience & poetry, walks into a decade-long nightmare involving A-list celebrities and a very powerful organization she never asked to join.

Hi. I’m Victoria.

I’m the kind of woman who knows what coercive control does to the nervous system and can cite the research while eating takeout in her pajamas at 2am while quietly having what I now recognize was a full-body stress response because a very famous person’s person, was parked outside. Again.

I’ve taught thousands of writers and published four books with Random House but for roughly ten years, some extremely recognizable people took an uninvited interest in my life. The kind of interest that rewires your sleep, your finances, your faith in systems that are supposed to protect people like you. The kind no one believes when you describe it at dinner parties, because the names are too big and your story sounds too implausible but so many women need to hear it anyway, so they can save themselves.

The part that surprises people, when I tell them any of this, is never the famous names. It’s that the systems didn’t work. The police weren’t useful. The lawyers weren’t reachable. The institutions built to help people like me did not help. I was left afraid for my life.

This project is also an exploration of narcissistic abuse by proxy, internal gaslighting, and the survival vertigo of being targeted by people or systems the culture protects.

When the powerful project their shadow onto an individual, the private struggle is not only about endurance. It is about restoring the internal scaffolding that allows a person to trust her own perception again.

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Celebrity Graffiti asks:

• What does fame do to the human soul?

• What does the public write onto the people it consumes?

• What happens when admiration turns into possession?

• How does narcissistic power distort reality?

• What writing craft helps restore the self after public defacement?

• Celebrity Graffiti section is Long-form essays. The Marks Some Leave Upon Us - Witty, literary blind-item memoirs on surviving celebrity narcissists, cults, & reclaiming the self. There is powerful healing found in telling our stories.

• Graffiti Labs section Learn narrative therapy, truth-telling & change-making writing with a bestselling author.

• Culinary Graffiti section - many recipes find their way into my memoirs, to heal, to calm, to be a character in events. Likewise going out to eat, alone with a writing pad or book, can make you feel nourished and cared for.

What you get

Two essays per week, some are free. Occasional recipe on the site.

Free subscribers:
- Get some of the weekly posts.

Paid subscribers
- All of the weekly posts and archive as it grows.
- Our forth coming page of mini courses and guides
- Extras from any book or course in the Graffiti line

Founding Graffiti Angels:
- Copy of any book or course in the Graffiti line, and much love

Monthly $15 /month

Yearly $65 /year

Founding $250 /year

About Victoria

Dr. Victoria Lynn Schmidt is a twice-doctored philosopher, Harvard-trained in neuroscience and poetry, & Random House author whose has reached over 270,000 readers & students. She intersects feminism, philosophy, culture, spiritual neuroscience, & the inner life of women, with humor and wit. She also runs TheNoeticFeminismInstitute.org and her full bio is here VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com

The Noetic Feminism Institute

The Noetic Feminism Institute's cultural commentary, books, podcast, and ideas worth paying attention to — at the intersection of feminism, consciousness, and soul. The questions nobody is asking yet, with humor and wit. White papers on the site.

By Dr. Victoria Lynn Schmidt

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