WHY I WRITE ABOUT NARCISSISM I was in a conference room with two attorneys and my former husband. On the chalkboard was this quote: “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were… Continue Reading
Sometimes narcissism comes from institutionalized oppression. This is a story that happened to me long ago. I married young the first time around between my sophomore and junior years at the University of Pennsylvania, at age 18. We had 2… Continue Reading
The Collaborative Law God and Code Condom I want to write about funny things. I like funny and I like laughing. However, as much as I try, as I wander down the highways and byways of this journey of my… Continue Reading
Whatever you do DON’T PANIC Susan Russo calls it There is Life After Whats His Name. Get on and over the past hurts and pain and reclaim the joy. Depression is situational and temporary but if you can’t budge… Continue Reading
The system of family law is inherently flawed. It is adversarial where it need not be, and when it needs to be strong it often fails the client. Civil Codes and family laws are ignored. Lawyers perjure themselves for their… Continue Reading
Anxiety is a part of the human condition. Everyone, everyday has some. But when it controls your actions, your sleeping, your eating and robs you of joy and becomes your only companion it is time to do something about it.… Continue Reading
Emily Dickinson gives us a vision of hope when she says, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul….. Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.” She is telling us that hope doesn’t take from… Continue Reading
by Samuel Lopez De Victoria, Ph.D. The extreme narcissist is the center of his own universe. To an extreme narcissist, people are things to be used. It usually starts with a significant emotional wound or a series of them culminating… Continue Reading
The Smartest Advice is Often From a Peer and Not a Lawyer When Divorcing a Narcissist People send me information, tips and tricks to share with others because it has worked for them. Here’s an email from a woman whose… Continue Reading
Being Right and Proving It: Engage Your ‘Fight Back’ Gene In a speech at Wheaton College, Carl Sagan spoke of how we share 99.6% of our active genes with chimpanzees. He described male chimps as aggressive, female chimps he says… Continue Reading