What does it mean to be ‘crazy’? Some synonyms are: derailed, not in one’s right mind, unbalanced, unstable, disturbed, distracted… you get the idea. We often think of emotional abuse as abuse that leaves no physical scars. However, as more information is spread regarding the depth of damage done due to chronic stress that often […]

I remember the first time one of my face to face coaching clients told me that they struggled finding happiness in relationships because… she found herself so bored with ‘normal, healthy’ individuals. I was a new coach at the time and I’m not going to lie, I honestly wanted to reach my hands through the […]

I remember the first time I stumbled across the definition of an empath. My eyes were wide open, mouth hanging slightly open in awe – I couldn’t believe that there was a name that described how I felt. So many things were finally making sense. But as I learned exactly what empathy is, how being […]

It’s a small, two letter word that is often one of the first words in a child’s vocabulary – and yet it is also one of the most difficult words to say in our adult life – that word is – NO!! Why does saying no, establishing boundaries and caring for our internal needs become […]

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When Gifts Are Synonymous With Poison: It’s very difficult to wrap your mind around the fact that the significant other,  parent, family member or close friend of yours purposely wants to harm you and/or destroy you (preferably the latter, if we are being honest with each other). After all, most relationships that are rocky, combative, and […]

 If someone strikes you – they are being physically abusive. If someone screams obsenities at you while foaming at the mouth – they are verbally abusive.  If someone purposely forces you to live in poverty, on a stipend of barely existing – they are financially abusive – among other things. There are some forms of abuse […]

When Your Child Grows Up To Imitate The Narcissist      Being raised by an emotional predator makes childhood equivalent to a war zone; a word, an accident, a false interpretation, breathing wrong can cause the toxic parent to go off like a bomb leaving a child feeling fearful of their very life. Leaving that […]

I received an email in response to a reader of the book Dating Harley Quinn which basically stated that any man that would go through what this true story portrays – would go mgtow.What is mgtow and could there be a connection between the acronym – which stands for -Men Going Their Own Way and […]

No one, and I mean NO ONE understands the turmoil, the damage, the prison, the nightmare…. the HELL that a person undergoes while in a relationship with a narcissist –unless they have been there themselves. This TRUE story is so insane that unless you are familiar with narcisissm, narcissistic abuse and histrionic personality disorder – you […]