Most people have experienced childhood neglect to one degree or another at some point during their lives. Of those, many dont even recognize it as neglect or abuse because people tend to idealize their childhood upbringing or even defend child abuse in order to cope with their own unpleasant feelings.

A tragic number of children have been raised to practice self-sacrifice and self-erasure in order to meet the needs of others, mainly their primary caregivers. This is often the main function that the child serves in the parent-child dynamic. This is wrong because its the parents responsibility to take care of the child, not vice […]

How Abusers Get Away with Their Behavior People with strong narcissistic, psychopathic, or sociopathic tendencies, abusers, manipulators, and otherwise harmful people tend to hurt others. Sometimes they do it overtly, even proudly, and in other cases its covert or maybe even unconscious. Sometimes its well planned and calculated, while other times its careless and reactionary. […]

People who have strong narcissistic tendencies and other toxic people are known for their manipulation tactics. Some of them are consciously cunning and deceiving. While others are more primitive and blunt in their disturbing behaviors. Whatever the case may be, such people tend to project heavily, not take responsibility for their actions, blame others, and […]

Whenyou’re sad, the first thing that is critical to do is to identify that sadness, to sit with that sadness, and to sink into that sadness. But what does that really mean? What does it really mean to sit with sadness? How do we do something we rarely do? Because most of us don’t have […]