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What are you not seeing?

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 […]

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Is This Second Nature To You?

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 […]

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Is Suffering Inevitable In An Emotionally Abusive Relationship?

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.  […]

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Is Something Stopping You?

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, […]

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My Very Best Wishes For Your Happy 2013

I’d like to wish you a heartfelt Happy 2013. 
The New Year is always a meaningful, almost magical, time for me.  It’s got nothing to do with Resolutions, and everything to do with happiness.  I can be quite obsessive about wishing friends and loved ones a Happy New Year.  It really matters to me to take […]

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2013, YOUR Year

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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What Will You Do, This Christmas?

With Christmas drawing ever closer, it’s a great time to take stock, isn’t it? 
Of course, there’s a lot of things we can take stock of, and we get to choose.  
At least, you get to choose provided you don’t slip unawares into the Calamitous 3 Cs – that’s 

comparing your life unfavourably with those Other People […]

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Top 10 Ways to Stay Unhappy, With or Without Him

Make your happiness dependent on his approval.   You’ll be happy when he reaches the top of the personality transplant list/sees the light/ says – and means – the words he’s never going to say and mean.
You put your life on hold.  Well, you can’t have a life until the relationship changes, can you?  Even though […]

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Why Indifference Rocks

How do you feel about indifference?
Is it a feeling that has much of a place in your life?  Do you think it might deserve a bigger place than it currently has?  Especially where your emotionally abusive husband is concerned.
Nobody teaches you to prize indifference. 
We women are meant to live in a touchy-feely world, where indifference […]

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The 5 Simple Steps to Healing from Narcissistic Abuse

Over the next 5 days, I'll send you some lessons and tips that I've found have really helped women to heal from narcissistic abuse.  Starting with the basics.