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Love Your Body Through Appreciation
Our culture places so much emphasis on physical appearance. I don’t know about you, but I feel constantly bombarded by idealistic images in the media, and feel inadequate on a regular basis. What if we take a step back and look at our bodies through a different lens. What if we look at them as…
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Do You Have PTSD?
Healing From Trauma; Addressing PTSD Understanding PTSD is a HUGE part of healing from trauma. When we have intense, over the top reactions to seemingly random things, it can be extremely frustrating, especially when we don’t know why we’re reacting the way we are. This can cause a lot of anxiety and depression, in addition…
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Please Read This * You Matter!!!
I want to address the fact that you matter, FIRST…… BEFORE we start down the path of learning how to love ourselves because if we don’t feel that we matter, it’s a 911 SITUATION. We’ll look at this fact from a few perspectives. Let me use this analogy to explain the REASON I feel this…
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Healing from Narcissistic Abuse; Hard But Not Impossible
Part 1 of a Series I haven’t written a blog in a while. I’ve been in a dark place, which is a bit disappointing to me on one level, because I thought I was past the downward spirals. On the other hand, it proves a point that I’ve made before, and now believe more than…
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Emotional Dysregulation: What Is It? And More Importantly, How Can We Get a Handle on It?
The Purpose of the Blog All of my other blogs have been written for other people, in order to share knowledge that I’ve acquired through research and found personally helpful in order to hopefully prevent readers from suffering the way I did. This article, however, is more “real time.” I’ve been triggered . I’m having…
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My Personal Attachment Style Story
A Real Life Story About How Attachment Styles Are Formed. From My Perspective This is hard! I have to say…this is kind of a hard blog to write. I started it about a month ago and keep putting off finishing it. My mind is having a tug of war. Me: “You’re betraying your mom!” Also…
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Attachment Styles and How They Affect Our Adult Relationships
First of all, this blog site is all about narcissism. What do attachment styles have to do with narcissism? Well, as we know, narcissists are all about themselves. Oftentimes a narcissistic parent can be neglectful, overbearing, or alternate between the two within a nanosecond. Their behavior is unpredictable, so we never know what to expect.…
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Happy….errr….Crappy Holidays!
Holidays with a narcissist are anything but happy. These energy suckers can take an already stressful time of year and turn up the heat before you can hear a chestnut pop! Seasoned partners, children and family members of narcissists already know this. As a matter of fact, when I asked some of the people I’ve…
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Flying Monkeys, Smear Campaigns and the Narcissistic Dance
Flying monkeys are the narcissists’ right hand men/women who help undermine the victim by spreading gossip and lies about the unsuspecting victim and the people most important to the victim. Sometimes they know they’re accomplices, other times they don’t. Unless you’ve done research on narcissism, you’ve likely never heard of the term “Flying Monkeys,” which…
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Narcissists Make You Sick. Literally!
When I was a kid, I remember saying on a regular basis, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” I thought I’d made the phrase up until I heard it on TV one day. Realizing I hadn’t come up with an original phrase was somewhat disappointing. But I could relate! Even at my…