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,...
Backed Into an Emotional Corner
You always overreact! You’re unstable! You have a problem with anger! You’re… CRAZY! C hances are good that you were accused of at least a few of these things if you were involved with a manipulator. A psychopath will say such things after...
At the Intersection of Truth and Lies: Self-Blame
“You saddled me with a lie I never deserved. I won’t forgive you for it… You led me to believe I was responsible.” ~ The Prize, Irving Wallace Most people experience self-blame after involvement with a psychopath, for good reason. These master manipulators are...
Emergency: Self-Blame
Self-Blame is the subject of this ’emergency’ blog post. I heard from a reader a couple of days ago who put the issue of self-blame front and center in my thoughts. Self-blame lurks in many of the comments written here, and although I’ve talked about...
Got Boundaries? Part Three: You Did NOT ‘Participate’ in Your Own Exploitation
A friend brought to my attention a post on a related website asserting that “when we become romantically involved with a sociopath we PARTICIPATE, in one way or another, in our own exploitation.” <<<jaw drops>>> I take issue with this...
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