Tag: healing
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Financial Abuse After Divorce Doesn’t Always Look Financial
Financial abuse after divorce is not always about money. Sometimes it is about control through silence, instability, withheld communication, and forced emotional labor. The hardest part is often not the expense itself. It is the exhaustion of constantly adapting to someone else’s chaos while trying to protect your child and keep your own peace intact.
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The Cost of Hate—and Choosing Peace Without Forgiveness
Hate is something many of us feel after abuse—but what if letting go of hate doesn’t mean you have to forgive? For a long time, I believed those two things went hand in hand. If I stopped hating him, didn’t that mean I had to forgive him too? I don’t believe that anymore. In my…
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Finding Hope After Narcissistic Abuse: A Survivor’s Guide
Let’s Talk About Hope Hope. Such a small word, yet it carries a weight that can change the course of a life. By definition, hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for something good to happen. It’s more than just wishful thinking — it’s a belief, a conviction, that something better is possible. To…
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Signs Your Child May Need Therapy After Narcissistic Abuse
I know I’ve written quite a bit about Chloe lately and the things that she’s going through with Sly as her father. In this particular post, I’m going to write about a few scenarios that have taken place lately. It is one of the hardest things I’ve had to do as her mother to watch…
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Surviving Narcissism: Navigating Lies and Delusions
Is it lying or is it being completely delusional? First, let’s look at the definitions of both of these terms. According to the good ol’ Merriam Webster online dictionary, lying is defined as “marked by or containing untrue statements: false”. I’m pretty sure all of us know what a lie is. The definition of delusion…
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Healing and Regaining Ourself
This post is going to deviate a little bit from my other posts thus far. As a victim of narcissistic abuse there are a number of emotional and physical things our bodies and minds go through as we embark on the healing process. The time abused by a narcissist varies and every situation is different,…
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Trauma Responses
Today we’re going to address trauma responses – what they are, why we have them, how to live with them, and how to gain back our freedom from them. We’ve already discussed what trauma is in a previous post. For this post, we’re going to discuss the trauma only from narcissistic abuse…because well, that’s what…
Narcissistic Abuse Survival 