"Why didn't she just leave?" That is the question most ask when they find out a woman has been suffering battery and abuse. It seems so simple, so obvious and yet any woman that has been abused will tell you that it is anything but simple. I once thought I would never be one of … Continue reading Ａｂｕｓｅ ｉｓ Ｎｏｔ Ｌｏｖｅ
Gaslighting – Power – Control – Manipulation
Underhanded at its core, gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse that happens more frequently than we often understand or recognize. By definition, emotional abuse is about controlling another person by criticizing, embarrassing, shaming, blaming, discounting, dismissing, depriving, or denying their rights, needs, wants, thoughts, feelings and equality in the relationship. Gaslighting is when someone … Continue reading Gaslighting – Power – Control – Manipulation
Shadow Work Is Hard Work
We’ve all been there, we’ve all had a part of us, a part of us tucked away deep within the reach of judgments from others, from forgiveness of ourselves. You know the ones that randomly creep back to your mind, to your heart, to your gut; the ones that wreck havoc on your soul, the … Continue reading Shadow Work Is Hard Work
Tips To Take Back Your Power
Let me be short and sweet here: words matter. Words matter far more than most of us give them credit for. So when I heard these words that changed my pattern of belief, of thinking, it became clear to me that these words were powerful. These words had the ability to alter my perception and … Continue reading Tips To Take Back Your Power
The Beauty In Broken
Ernest Hemingway once said, "we are all broken, thats how the light gets in." And if you stop to really access that statement, it is profoundly deep. In the first interception with the concept of being broken, many will shun away from the concept, many will be in denial, but for those of you who … Continue reading The Beauty In Broken
Writers Block
04.30.19 Writing is suppose to come from the heart, its suppose to be a trickle effect from the words to the thought provoking feelings it pulls out from within. For isn't that the very reason we choose to write? To think that even for a moment you can transform words into meaning for another? To … Continue reading Writers Block
Nomad Land
Its a very different world, when you live in one in which you seemingly don't have a true north. Most people are born into families, families in which you have a deep sense of belonging if not acceptance and love. Granted not everyone has the privilege to have divine acceptance and perpetuating love from their … Continue reading Nomad Land
The Story Of Life
No one knows where their story is going, nor who the heroes in it are going to be. At anytime, life can surprise you. Life itself can trick us and it can certainly mislead us. It can paint one person a hero when they very well may be the villain. Hero or villain? Villain or … Continue reading The Story Of Life
Stricken By Stress
The most important lesson I have ever been taught to date, is to listen to your body. I don't practice medicine, but what I did come to find, did drastically change my outlook on life. Who knows, maybe it will resonate with you too, maybe it will peak your curiosity to consider change, to become … Continue reading Stricken By Stress
The Truth As I Know It
Ernest Hemingway once said, "Write loud and clear about the things that hurt." Well, darling, you have hurt me more than I ever dreamt possible, so this one's for you. You have taken everything good and pure about our relationship and blackened it with shame, with deceit, with twisted delusions. So lets talk about it, … Continue reading The Truth As I Know It
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