Being in a family with manipulative people, especially if they are your parents, is one of the most confusing and painful things to experience. When the people who are supposed…
The mental health term gaslighting has joined the vernacular in recent years. This is mostly welcome, except for the times it is co-opted by narcissists or abusers (aka, when they…
The words trauma, traumatic, traumatizing are no doubt overused lately. Our society is going through somewhat of a renaissance in terms of mental health and recognizing the harm of various…
In my estimation, cults are everywhere — in far more common and insidious ways than you might at first think. When using the term loosely, you can apply it to…
Everyone has inner child energy. If you’re sensitive or an empath, you may have an awareness or connection around this. Or the concept may sound odd to you, or even…
What Are Trauma Bonds? Trauma bonds are emotional attachments formed between people in an abusive relationship. There is usually one abusive, narcissistic, or controlling person in relationship to a victim.…
Holding onto resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. As the saying goes, and how true it is! Yet most of us struggle with letting…
Trauma can be defined as an event that causes extreme emotional pain or massive stress. It overwhelms the individual’s capacity to cope or process what occurred. Common responses include fear,…
Abandonment is a very common experience in early life as well as adulthood. Tragically, trauma and other challenges like abandonment (a type of trauma) can shape and change the brain…
Humanity is stressed right now, to say the least – in some ways more than ever. And that’s not even touching on the horrors of war, poverty, and oppression that…
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