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Are you tired of being taken for granted, used, invalidated, disrespected, manipulated and devalued? Do you want to have relationships with healthy, normal people? Could your self-confidence use a boost? Press the Button! Related Posts You Are Not Your...
Want To Reclaim Your Power? Re-Write Your Story!
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” (Joseph Campbell) There is a difference between what happened and the story you tell yourself about it. The facts can’t be changed, but the...
Self-Respect: The Key to Everything
“Self love, self respect, self worth – all interlinked and vital.” ~ Jane Thorne Self respect can be in short supply after being manipulated, abused and devalued by a psychopath. Losing our self respect stems from the feeling that we compromised our own...
The Self-Compassion Effect
Step outside yourself for a moment, if you will, and turn and look at yourself. There you are, the ‘you’ who was mistreated and who is now treating yourself so harshly, who is feeling shame, despair, doubt, outrage, confusion, self-doubt, deep sadness,...
The Cult of Two
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” ~ George Orwell, 1984 That quote describes perfectly the radical psychological process of brainwashing. A person involved with a psychopath was manipulated,...
Moral Injury: The Hidden Wound to the Soul
When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, Pain itself will crack the rock and Ahhh! let the soul emerge. ~ Rumi You were victimized by a psychopath, a person with a disorder characterized by egocentricity, deceitfulness, impulsivity, a lack of empathy, the...
From Adversity, Forge Meaning
On this New Year’s day the future opens before us sparkling with promise, yet tainted by the experience of having been victimized by a psychopath. What can we do with that experience, so it doesn’t keep us on the side of the road when we want to move...
Narcissist or Psychopath? What You Need To Know
Dante and Virgil in the Ninth Circle of Hell by Gustave Dore Narcissist or psychopath? It’s hard to tell the difference. Both are self-absorbed, arrogant, manipulative and insensitive. They share similar characteristics and behaviors, and both are...
A Hidden Fact of Psychopaths: They Have No Gender
Do psychopaths have a gender? After my involvement with the psychopath, I got the strange feeling that he didn’t really have a gender. When I learned that psychopaths have no identity — they only create one as needed — it started to make...
Thoughts On the ‘Self’ in Psychopaths and Narcissists: Guest Post
This guest post is by ‘Reality,’ a reader of this blog. “After contemplating narcissism and psychopathy, and reading Adelyn’s post about what is at the root of psychopathy, I came to some illuminating conclusions. We know that the core feature...
Your Journey is the Hero’s Journey
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” ~Joseph Campbell Recovery from involvement in a psychopathic bond was a long and rocky road. But in the arduous process of healing after it was...
The Mask of the Psychopath
What is the mask of a psychopath? Psychopaths wear a ‘mask’ — a fake persona — to hide who they really are. They construct different masks for different people and situations, and use those masks to manipulate and get what they want. They are...
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