Boundaries crossed during a run in with a Narcissistic parent.
Developing and enforcing healthy boundaries is paramount to our daily emotional well being, and...
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Category: Mother Wounds
Third person journaling through an emotional roller coaster.
It’s no secret that journaling is extremely helpful in recovery from trauma because it helps...
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The wolf in sheep’s clothing, in your recovery.
Things are not always as they seem in recovery. What you think is an underlying cause of all that...
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Gaining perspective by changing your focus in trauma recovery
Sometimes I need a little perspective in life to see how far I’ve come. That’s just...
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Feeling miserable doesn’t punish others, only ourselves.
This is a concept that I really had a bit of a light bulb moment with recently. On a side note,...
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Was I a victim of religious abuse?
That may sound like an odd question, at least it does to me. I say that because I was raised in...
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The Real Truth is that we were abused!
The title of this post might seem a little odd, or “out there”, but if you’ll...
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Too many of us never had a rescuer from abuse
Everybody deserves to have a rescuer, but as survivors of childhood sexual abuse or any type of...
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Can avoidance be a healthy boundary?
I’m starting out this post as somewhat of a “thinking out loud” scenario....
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My sandbox therapy in trauma recovery
Therapy is not something that one would normally refer to as “fun”, but every once in...
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Anger or Empathy towards a toxic parent?
That might not be as easy an answer as you may think, should we have anger or empathy towards a...
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Struggling with guilt for not being being close with my family.
A recent therapy session ended with leaving me feeling a bit better than I expected. Normally I do...
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