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"Fear is the chronic sickness caused by abuse." - Meredith Miller; The Journey: A Roadmap for Self-healing After Narcissistic Abuse (pg. 173)...
"Jackson MacKenzie so lovingly and transparently delves deeply into the trauma and sorrow that can stand in between us and our real selves. This...
Has your partner or family member ever: Blamed you for financial stress even though they are the ones over-spending? Forged your name on...
One of the hardest things to do after a traumatic situation is to slow down and take care of ourselves. Often times, our minds are racing and our...
Psychopaths are cunning charmers and master manipulators, to the point where you start to accept the most extreme behaviors as normal…Even if it...
As one of the Cluster-B disorders, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is often mentioned alongside sociopathy and narcissism. While some of the...
Partners of Cluster-B individuals often wonder if they'll ever receive an apology. The answer is: you might, but it won't be genuine. Here's why....
Blame-shifting is when a person does something wrong or inappropriate, and then dumps the blame on someone else to avoid taking responsibility for...
I'm reading an interesting book called The Way of the Human (Volume II) by Stephen Wolinsky, PhD. He describes how narcissistic wounds occur when...
I've been reading the book Returning to Oneness, by Leslie Temple-Thurston and Brad Laughlin. It's a short read and I highly recommend it. It...
I shared this article a while back and a lot of people resonated with it: Understanding Your Core Pain and False Self We first experience our core...
After narcissistic abuse, survivors often fall into more dramatic and toxic situations. This can usually be explained by the Karpman Drama...
I get this question all the time, and my answer is always the same: don't try to win. As soon as we engage in this win / lose mentality, we...
After a relationship with a narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath, everything is chaotic. But once the dust settles, you're likely to find a bunch...
When we are separated from love in a traumatic or extremely abrupt way (cheating, abandonment, replacement), we often internalize a message that...
This is from a new book I'm working on. To be notified when its released, please scroll to the bottom and find the email signup. Part 1: The...
The experience that I write about here on PF was also my first experience with romantic love. This gave me a bit of a warped understanding of love...
After psychological abuse, many survivors feel broken, like they will never return back to the person they were before. Joy and love seems to have...
In more or less words, this is the underlying theme of most psychological abuse. Your jealousy is wrong when they triangulate you. Your needs are...
Fear, Obligation, and Guilt (FOG) are the triad of emotional abuse. These three feelings can cause an overwhelming amount of self-doubt, anxiety,...
