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How do you recover from emotional abuse when you feel broken?

How do you recover from emotional abuse when you feel broken?
“This is my last effort to reach out to someone for help. My love, whom I thought was my love, started out to be a prince. He made me feel like a princess. I loved the way he made me feel………………in the beginning.   I am […]

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You Don’t Need To Be Emotionally Abused

Who taught you…?
Dion felt invisible – but like most emotionally abused women she wasn’t even aware what was wrong
“Who taught you that you didn’t matter much?” I asked Dion.
“What do you mean?” she replied.
That kind of blank incomprehension is common in my emotionally abused clients. They’ve been emotionally neglected  -and/or rejected – by key figures […]

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10 Keys to Recovery From Emotional Abuse

Get clear-sighted. “But I love him”, is a great justification – if you want to drive yourself half-crazy with misery – otherwise it really doesn’t help you to recover from emotional abuse.. Ask yourself, instead: “What do I love about my emotionally abusive partner? Right here, right now?”
Listen to your internal dialogue. How many nice, […]

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“Help! My Sister’s Bullying Me!”

“Help! My sister’s bullying me. How do I deal with a bullying sibling?” a client asked me this week.
Being bullied by a member of your own family – especially when you are a child –  can be incredibly hard to deal with. Many people underestimate the difficulties of being a child. Having been brought up in […]

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Do You Do This, Too?

What sets emotionally abused women apart from other women?
What do you think?
Q:  Is it, do you suppose, that they are in some way worth less?  Are they, in any way, less lovable, less deserving, less womanly, less loving, less able, less attractive, less intelligent, less  anything you could care to name?
A:  No, of course not.  […]

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What Do You Need To Know About Bullying?

What do you need to know about bullying? If you’re either in, or recovering from, an emotionally abusive relationship, you really need to know everything you possibly can about bullying. Why? Because to all intents and purposes, bullying and emotional abuse are pretty much  evil twins.  The only difference is the degree of intimacy involved.  […]

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“My emotionally abusive partner loves me, really…”

“My emotionally abusive partner loves me really…” is something emotionally abused women often say.  They don’t like being in the dark place that emotional abuse takes them to and, in the best of all possible worlds, they would like to recover from emotional abuse but it’s not that easy for them.  If he loves them […]

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One Woman’s Journey to Recovery from Emotional Abuse

Lisa was doing that emotionally abused woman thing and blaming herself for everything.    She found me over the Internet – although, in reality, we only lived about 70 miles apart. She was in one of the darker circles of Hell.  She wanted to recover from emotional abuse, although she had no idea how – or […]

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She got this wrong and you probably do, too

So happy..   Angie is the emotionally abused woman who kept telling me how happy she was.  She was 3,000 miles away calling on her mobile via Skype, but she was so excited I would probably have heard her even without the marvels of modern technology. My face was aching from smiling so much.
Now, that’s not […]

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How Emotional Abuse Creates A Victim Story

Lisa was in that difficult halfway house between wanting to recover from emotional abuse and wanting to hold on to the relationship with her emotionally abusive partner.  Her brain kept telling her that she couldn’t do both, but her emotions were resisting all the way.  Naturally enough, she could find plenty of reasons why she […]

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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.