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Healing and Recovery

Recovering from emotional abuse is a slow process, but ultimately incredibly rewarding as you begin to discover boundaries, self-respect, and love.

  1. Why Does it Take So Long to Get Over a Relationship with a Psychopath?

    Relationships with psychopaths take an unusually long time to recover from. Survivors often find themselves frustrated because they haven't healed fast enough.
  2. Healing From & Avoiding Future Psychopathic Abuse

    This is when you begin to discover all of your strengths. Many of these were qualities you always possessed but never valued, like compassion and love.
  3. A Letter to the Other Woman

    We can only ever stop this cycle of abuse with compassion for one another. By recognizing that all human beings deserve to be treated with respect and kindness.
  4. The Constant

    You experienced an abuser. Someone who manipulated this gift to cause pain. And now you want to know how to avoid them so it’ll never happen again.
  5. Maintaining No Contact and Happiness

    Cognitive Dissonance. The only way to end this tragedy for ourselves is to face our fear of having reached the point of no return and end all contact.
  6. PTSD, Anxiety, and Sunset Conversations

    I spent weeks of my life researching this demon, trying to figure out why it wouldn’t leave me alone. I wanted so badly for it to go away, allowing me to enjoy
  7. Finding a Way Out of the Darkness Through EMDR Therapy

    Excruciating emotional pain. Numbness. Loss of appetite. Sleepless nights. Obsessive thoughts. Inability to concentrate. Loss of pleasure in activities.
  8. The Psychopathic Puzzle

    Like a rolling snowball, every single part of the relationship, our friendship, past abuses, etc... It all just makes sense.
  9. Hope and Healing from Harry Potter

    I read the first four books of the Harry Potter series in 2001, when I was 22. At the time, I was an aspiring teacher, and I wanted to read the books.
  10. Ending Cognitive Dissonance

    The more you read about psychopaths, you realize if their lips are moving, they're lying. Including whatever they told you that made you feel so special.