Annie Kaszina 
Nancy’s email was short and sweet. She ‘just wanted to let me know she felt good about having left her emotionally abusive husband’.
Hooray!
It certainly hadn’t been easy for her – not that it ever is. She’d had to turn her child’s world upside down – you can imagine the guilt she felt about that – […]
So, you’ve been in an emotionally abusive relationship. What can you learn about relationships from a Navajo Wedding Vase?
Quite a lot, it seems.
Not that I knew the first thing about Navajo Wedding Vases, until I cam across this blog post by my good friend Jane Bennett. (http://www.theexpatpartner.com/living-abroad-relationship-pitfalls-a-navajo-vase/)
Jane explains the point of the Navajo Wedding Vase very […]
I don’t know how you feel about it, but my decades on the planet have led me to the conclusion that…
Valentine’s Day sucks.
I believe it sucks whether you’re in a relationship, and have a man in your life, or whether you don’t.
It sucked, for me, when I was single, because I never got enough ‘Worship […]
If you’re a woman who’s ended up in an emotionally abusive relationship, you’ve probably asked yourself a lot of questions.
You need to know that not all questions are equal.
Some questions are useful. Some are not.
“How could I be so stupid?” is not a useful question – not least, because of the presupposition that you’re stupid. […]
Has your emotionally abusive relationship taken over your life?
Living life – or, more correctly, trying to live life – as an emotionally abused woman is about as easy as trying to live with a family of elephants permanently parked right at the heart of your living space.
An emotionally abusive relationship fills all the space available.
Consciously, […]
If you’re an emotionally abused woman, it’s become second nature for you to tell yourself you don’t matter.
How could it possibly be otherwise?
Your emotionally abusive partner spent a lot of time teaching you that you don’t matter – to him, and to The World at large. (It baffles me how Mr Nastys everywhere can be […]
What are you not seeing? Have you ever had the feeling you must be missing something that was staring you in the face?
When you think about it, you must have done, mustn’t you? Otherwise you wouldn’t have been able to be so, er … blind to the shortcomings of an emotionally abusive man.
We don’t see […]
Is suffering inevitable in an emotionally abusive relationship? It may feel inevitable. Buy let’s look at what’s really happening.
Have you come across the Buddhist saying: “Pain is inevitable: suffering is optional”?
It’s a powerful distinction.
When you get involved in an emotionally abusive relationship, you board a runaway train of pain and suffering. No doubt about that. […]
Have you ever felt there was something stopping you? Something standing in the way of your having the good life you truly deserve? If you’re like most emotionally abused women you probably feel a lot of obstacles stand in the way of you taking action.
However ground down you become in an emotionally abusive relationship, […]
It’s 2013, your year!
Hooroo! Christmas and the New Year are behind you! Now you can turn your attention to making 2013 your year.
Like everyone else, you come to the New Year with your fears, anxieties, problems, and possibilities. Inside your own head, what’s making more noise, your fears-anxieties-problems? Or your possibilities?
Does it sound like a […]
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