Annie Kaszina

You know something?  You’re nice.
And bad things happen to nice people. 
It’s not a punishment for being nice.  It’s an occupational hazard for “doing nice”.
(I’m prepared to labor this point a little, because it really is key.  But abused women don’t get it the first or the second time.  It takes a LOT of getting your […]

There’s something you need to take on board about people: people don’t all work the same way.
Now, you may be wondering why I’m telling you something so blindingly obvious.  If you’ve been on this earth for more than 5 minutes, you already know that, don’t you?
It’s not quite that simple.  In reality, it seems to […]

We need to talk about your parents.
This is NOT about blame, I’m NOT suggesting we look at your parents in order to lay blame at their door for whatever has happened in your life.
Maybe there’s cause for blame, maybe there isn’t.  Let’s not go there.  You see, we’re in the business of making your life […]

Hey, you with the sad face, how did it happen?  How did you end up stuck in a lousy relationship with an abusive partner.

Every so often I come across a woman who’ll tell me that she was riding high when she met her abusive partner. While I know the woman who tells me that story […]