Recover From Emotional Abuse

The Problem with Healing the Wounds of Abuse

This week we need to talk about healing the wounds of emotional abuse as we have not talked before.  I want to share with you some new insights that might just shed new light on the old problem of how you relate to others and yourself.
If you were brought up with abusive parents, you were […]

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Why You Need to Get into Your Head More 

Having a relationship with a toxic, narcissistic partner does not leave you as it found you. Rather your abusive partner identifies every anxiety, every low feeling that you ever had and magnifies it.  .Especially if you did not receive all the love and care you needed -and deserved – from your family of origin, then […]

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When they say to you, “Nobody is perfect.”

Have you ever had people say to you, “Nobody’s perfect”?  it’s one of those phrases that should be perfectly harmless.    Still, if that  seemingly harmless phrase/judgement  does not land comfortably with you, you’re not alone in that – and you are not wrong. This week, we need to look at the important if uncomfortable learning […]

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The Problem with Still Loving an Abusive Ex

Wouldn’t it be nice if, early on in an abusive relationship, you woke up and, Poof! just like that stopped loving your abusive partner?  How many years and how much angst could you have saved yourself? If only people worked like that. Sadly, most people do not work like that. You have had to learn […]

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How do they make you feel?  The Key Red Flag Question

“What are the Red Flags you should be looking out for if you want to Narcissist-proof your life?” I was asked.  I settled happily into my chair.  This is, after all, one of my favorite questions since my whole mission is about educating women to safeguard them against repeating painful relationship mistakes.
“Intuition, intuition, INTUITION”, I […]

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“Was I married to your husband?”

Abusive men are much more like one another than they are like anyone else. They are not your fault. We do them, and ourselves, no favours at all when we tolerate their bad behaviour. Like spoilt children, indulging them only allows them to become worse. But, as chronological adults, it is for them to take responsibility for their own behaviour; not us. No matter how much they may tell us that their bad behaviour is our fault, that doesn’t make it true.

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You Can Have Closure On An Emotionally Abusive Relationship

When you’ve been in an emotionally abusive relationship, you live with the belief that you can never recover from emotional abuse and be at peace until your emotionally abusive partner acknowledges what a jerk he was.  Not that he is ever going to do that – which means that the rest of your life could […]

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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.

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