Barney Jamie Pearson

Barney Jaime Pearson is a writer, landlord, and former Senior Payroll Tax Analyst Lead based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At sixty‑one, he is discerning vocation and meaning through the braided work of memoir, poetry, and spiritual reflection. His writing transforms pain, stigma, and longing into stories marked by resilience, humor, and mercy, exploring themes of outsiderhood, steadfast friendship, covenant, and the quiet dignity of survival. When he isn’t drafting memoir chapters or refining his living glossary of reframed words, Barney can be found cycling Milwaukee’s trails, lifting weights, or shaping weekly reflections that weave together ritual, resilience, and recovery. His home serves as both sanctuary and workshop — a place where solitude becomes healing and writing becomes a covenant with memory. Three months after release of his blog, Binders and Recovery, it received over one thousand hits worldwide. A domestic violence and a narcissist survivor, he offers his time and space to support others navigating similar experiences. His work and witness have led to invitations to speak in Milwaukee, where he continues to explore how storytelling can restore agency, dignity, and hope. Bio written by survivor and friend, William. “A narcissist’s weapon of choice is often verbal – slander, lies, playing the victim in flipped tales of who was the victim and who was the abuser, gossip, rage, verbal abuse and intentional infliction of emotional pain. It is a systemic dismantling of another person’s relationships, reputation, emotional, physical and spiritual health, life and very soul.” - Gail Meyers “People don’t abandon the people they love. They abandon the people they were using.” - Unknown