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Rideshare Confessional: When a Man Yells at a Woman
Last night I got a call to pick up a young woman around 2:00 a.m. When I arrived, she was saying goodbye to a very good looking young man, who waved and greeted me with the friendliest smile ever. Of...
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Man Alive! Heal From an Abusive Past
— It’s hard enough to navigate life’s challenges when you received a strong foundation of love and care growing up. When you didn’t receive that, everything from ordinary situations to stressful...
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Gay Man Forgives Family For Traumatic Childhood
Abandoned by his parents and raised by a resentful grandmother, Luis didn’t have an ideal childhood. When he began to realize that he was gay, he felt even more isolated. While he was eventually able...
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Forgiveness Does Work
How can good people assist decent men to become active fathers? I’ve come to see that forgiveness, getting to know myself, and freeing myself is a great start. I encouraged my twenty-two-year-old son,...
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Perpetuating Victimization
I spent seven years in an abusive marriage. I remember the day it escalated to the point where I realized I could not stay. I had gotten an angry threatening text from him while at work and I knew I...
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Emotional Abuse Recovery — How Long Is a Piece of String?
Have you found yourself asking for what seems like the hundredth time; when am I going to get over this toxic relationship? Emotionally abusive relationships are very hard to get over and often take...
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Five Things to Say When Someone Is Healing From Narcissistic Abuse
Even is the intent is to be kind, some questions and comments can make the target feel like they are not believed or understood. If we want to be supportive, what, then, do folks really want to hear?...
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Purpose, Meaning and Healing From Narcissistic Abuse
The final of our six core needs (as mentioned in the first post in this series), is the need for purpose, meaning and transcendence. In The Myth of Normal, Gabor Maté defines this as “knowing oneself...
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Empowering the Female Collective: Reclaiming Self-Worth from Abusive...
By Deborah Holmen, M.Ed., NBCT Photo by Abo Ngalonkulu on Unsplash Throughout history, women have faced the challenge of learning their self-worth, often through the crucible of abusive...
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