Kill The Silence: Episode 5

In 2023 I lost my job.

I was scared, unemployed, back at home, and trying to start over at a new company while hiding that I hated everything about my life.

That’s when my therapist of five years, Emily Ann Davis, invited me to her house.

She told me she was being stalked. That someone named Reily, a woman I had dated, was destroying her life. Posting pictures of her kid. Downloading her divorce records. Making complaints to the psychology board. And that it was my fault.

She said I had to cut Reily off. Delete everything. Sign a contract. Pay her money. Or she and her son would lose everything. That’s what she told me.

And I believed her.

Over the next year, I would be:

• Drugged by my therapist — pills “to calm down,” which turned out to be benzos and muscle relaxers
• Forced to sign a coercive contract under threat of career destruction if I didn't
• Ordered to cut off all friends, exes, and family members — even told to deny I ever knew them
• Bombarded with anonymous messages and threats from burner phones and random emails
• Sent fake complaints to my employer, allegedly from Reily and someone named Mark
• Harassed by hundreds of blocked calls at all hours of the day and night
• Threatened with a 50000 dollar penalty if I broke a single “rule” in the contract she wrote
• Told I owed her over 100000 dollars for “legal fees” and “reputation protection”
• Terrified my FINRA case would be sabotaged, that my career was over before it began

And the whole time, I was trying to show up and learn my new job, pretending everything was okay while my life was being psychologically burned to the ground.

I had multiple breakdowns. Dissociated. Felt like I was outside of my body. I stopped sleeping. I couldn’t eat. I felt suicidal. I couldn’t tell anyone what was going on because I thought if I did, I’d lose my career, hurt my family, and never recover.

That’s how she kept me quiet.

With fear.
With threats.
With a fucking contract.

This wasn’t therapy. This was abuse disguised as guidance. Calculated. Manipulative. Almost deadly. She knew every one of my vulnerabilities because I told her in therapy. And she used them all against me when I was at my lowest.

That’s what this episode of Kill The Silence is about.

We speak the truth here. Even when it’s ugly.

Because silence is how abusers win.

Not this time.

— Cody Taymore

Kill The Silence

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