What do you suppose is the most important thing that a Narcissist steals from you? Admittedly, that is one big question. However, it is a big question that needs to be asked. It can only help your healing if you can drill down to the core of the problem. How are you meant to heal […]
Have you ever thought how closely the fear of making mistakes relates to the whole experience of emotional abuse?
Narcissists teach you that you have to attain their impossible standards of perfection in order to be good enough to be loved by them – and therefore, by extension, loved by anyone else in the entire world.
In […]
As a child, I used to love maze games. As far as I could tell, I was pretty good at them – at least, I solved them fast enough. Only later on did I learn that I have a hopeless sense of direction and I don’t do too well with real world mazes. Not to […]
“What do you know about it, anyway?” my brother asked, with all the gracelessness that decades of practice could produce.
He was asking what I thought gave me the right to adjust the height of my mother’s walker.
I refrained from asking him what kind of idiot he was that he couldn’t see that the handles were […]
What do you do when you feel lost or down? I’ll tell you what my programmed, first reaction is: to wallow like a buffalo or hippopotamus.
It’s not a good look, for sure.
Plus, it doesn’t do too much for my mood or motivation. Whether that urge to wallow is temperament or training, I can’t be entirely […]
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