What It Means To Nurture Yourself
Nurture: Care for and encourage the growth and development of, and: Protect; guard; keep from risk Provide for; look after Cherish Love Hold dear; to be fond of Treasure; regard as precious; value highly...
Category: Relationships
Jagged Edges Singing
In this moving collection of poetry, we are drawn up through stygian darkness as it alchemizes into layers of increasing light. The poet’s long and convoluted path of heart and soul healing rings the...
When Love Hurts-Traumatic Bonding with a Pathological Partner
When love hurts it is possible that you are entangled with a pathological partner. A narcissist or sociopath or psychopath, all of which are masters of manipulation. They take you apart piece by tiny...
Saving Your Most Significant Relationship
The quality of the relationship you have with yourself is what determines the quality of your relationship with every other person in your life. ...
What Normal Isn’t
The feeling that was most pervasive for us as children, and the one that is most insidious to us as adults with post childhood trauma symptoms, is that we are somehow all ALONE. We...
Is Your Love Nest In Flames?
“I had gone to him as my inner child, with beggar bowl in hand—extended for his love, acceptance, my worth and significance. What I received was the exact opposite of what I had so...
Chasing the Rescue Fantasy
As childhood trauma survivors, our formative years were spent in an unstable and unpredictable environment where we adopted a multitude of self-preservation techniques in order to survive. But those same techniques keep steering us...
Who Makes You Feel Less Than?
Personal Boundary #3 I will not associate with people who treat me or speak to me in a way that makes me feel diminished Are you still associating with people who say and do...
Loving Your Wounded Inner Child
One of the most debilitating burdens of our dysfunctional upbringing is the effect it continues to have on our level of clarity. Do we choose what’s behind door number one, two or three? Our...
Are You Last on Your List–Since Childhood?
When it comes to me discussing relationships, it will always come back to loving yourself. For survivors of chronic childhood trauma, that is our Mt. Everest. We reach the highest pinnacle of healing and...
