Healing is about feeling. If you’ve ever stepped into a therapy office, chances are you have been asked the question, “How do you feel about that?” If you are anything …
Rejection Sensitivity: How Abandonment Wounds Distort Your Social Life And The Way You See Yourself
Imagine a moment when you walked into a room and it suddenly got quiet. Or that time in the elevator when you overheard whispering. When your friend didn’t text back …
Surviving Mother’s Day After A Lifetime of Narcissistic And Family Scapegoating Abuse
For scapegoats, Mother’s Day is a day of loss. The commercials start off with messages of honouring your mother for the incredible woman she is. She is beautiful! Perfect! Amazing! …
Facing Family Ejection: The Stark Truth About Speaking Out About Scapegoating
“I still have dreams where I can’t speak. I’m with my family of origin and I’m trying to tell them what I know, what I have found out: the abuse, …
The Dual-Edged Trauma of Family Estrangement
“No one would choose this! Why would anyone choose this? Who would go out of their way to be disconnected from a family that is supposedly loving, to lose all …
Six Ways To Move Beyond Anger and Injustice After Narcissistic and Scapegoating Abuse
Injustice can stall us halfway through our stories of recovery. We have grieved the pain and losses, and we have worked on finding our voice, but when that wall of …