Life After…Moving To Happy You Have Many Possible Futures – Which One Will You Choose? You may have been told for so long that everything was your fault, you can’t do anything right, you’re not smart, so that all of a sudden you don’t… Continue Reading
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Domestic Violence and Orders of Protection
Understanding Orders of Protection (A guest blog post because your safety is important.) Surviving abusive and dangerous people sometimes necessitates taking strong legal action. If you or someone you know has been the victim of domestic violence there are… Continue Reading
The Narcissist and Reality: Not Like Yours
Word Salad and Stealth Transaction Fees Oh how clever the narcissist: learning the language of manipulation so that it appears normal. They will act relaxed, laid back, and even serene with you. But the tab… Continue Reading
Narcissistic Parent
I If we grew up with a parent who suffered from narcissistic personality disorder ( click here to read my article on this) it is likely to have taken a heavy toll on our emotional development. One of the most… Continue Reading
Exposing Corruption
DOES CORRUPTION MATTER? Yes. I write about corrupt people. I expose them, using their own words and deeds. Nothing else. I hold up the mirror and show them their reflection. They do not like it. They complain. I do this… Continue Reading
I Can’t Move On If You Are Standing on My Toes: After Narcissism
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
When Anxiety is Hijacking Your Life, Get Rid of It
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
Hope
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
The Extreme Narcissist
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
When You Are Right and Need to Prove It
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