I ran two marathons while I was married to The Narcissist. A marathon is an accomplishment at any rate, but it feels extra monumental for me. I was not a runner… I was pretty much the opposite of a runner when I met The Narcissist. I had never run more than a 1/2 mile in […]
It just keeps getting worse… this news is particularly hard to take. Trump plans to eliminate 25 violence against women grant programs as way to cut spending Donald Trump’s staff has big plans to cut government spending, the most startling of which is a proposal to eliminate the Department of Justice’s violence against women grant […]
This weekend I had the pleasure of participating in the Boston Women’s March for America, and found the entire experience to be deeply moving. I’ve been on a kick of empowerment lately which has been awesome – and that is the best word that I can think of to describe participating in the march… empowering! […]
For the past few months my therapist has been reminding me that we need to dig in and start using EMDR and Brainspotting to work on the trauma of the physical abuse from The Narcissist. I haven’t exactly been avoiding it per say, I have just had some really good and positive things going on in […]
My life has gotten to a point where most days I am able to get through without even remembering that I was once mentally, emotionally and physically abused. I’ve put in the work, I’ve done the healing, and where many things used to make me think of the abuse or at the very least the […]
The Narcissist had spent nearly 8 years completely shifting my life around so that he was at the center of everything. What I never realized at the time is that these manipulations were done by design as a method of control and coercion to make it feel nearly impossible for me to ever leave him. […]
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